Molasse burdigalienne

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic Formation

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Burdigale Molasse

Français

Molasse burdigalienne

Italiano

Molassa burdigalianna

English

Burdigalian molasse

Historical Variants

Burdigalien auct. (Rutsch 1933), Burdigalien = unterer Teil der OMM (Gerber & Wanner 1984), Molasse burdigalienne, Burdigalian facies (Schoepfer & Berger 1989)

Description

Thickness

250-300 m (Gerber & Wanner 1984)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• «Molasse de l'Helvétien»

Units at floor

• Molasse aquitanienne

Geography

Type profile

• Wolhusen, Keller 1989
  

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Molasse

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

Schoepfer Pascal, Berger Jean-Pierre (1989) : «Burdigalian» and «Helvetian» in Western Switzerland. Geol. Carpathica 40, 17–21

p.17: [The lower part of the OMM] corresponds to the "Burdigalian facies". It is built of a tide- and wave-dominated sandy unit in which sedimentological (Homewood et al. 1981) as well as paleontological (Berger 1985) analyses have been carried out.