«Calcaire du Jura»

Representation and status

Color CMYK

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Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Jurakalk»

Français

«Calcaire du Jura»

Italiano

«Calcare del Giura»

English

«Limestone of the Jura Mountains»

Origin of the Name

Roche calcaire de la chaîne du Jura

Historical Variants

Calcaire du Jura (von Humboldt 1795, Haug 1910), Jurakalke, Jura-Kalke, Jura-Kalk, Calcaire jurassique, Calcaires jurassiques, Calcaire jurassien, Calcaires jurassiens, Jura Limestone

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic