Couches du Burlandier
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Color RGB
- R: 170 G: 220 B: 245
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Burlandier-Schichten
- Français
- Couches du Burlandier
- Italiano
- Strati del Burlandier
- English
- Burlandier Beds
- Origin of the Name
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Le Burlandier (Ain, France), entre St-Germain-de-Joux et Nantua
- Historical Variants
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Couches du Burlandier (Enay 1965, Hantzpergue 1975), faciès à ammonites = Formation des Couches à Céphalopodes = Couches du Burlandier (Enay 2018)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Kimmeridgian
- Note about top
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zone à Divisum
- Age at base
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- Early Kimmeridgian
- Note about base
-
zone à Platynota
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Jura méridional et partie sud-est de l'Ile Crémieu.
- Type area
- Jura méridional (France)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Malm of the Jura Mountains
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary