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

Le Burlandier (Ain, France), entre St-Germain-de-Joux et Nantua

Historical Variants

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
  • Early Kimmeridgian
Note about top

zone à Divisum

Age at base
  • 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

  • Malm of the Jura Mountains
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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