Sables de Chagny
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Chagny-Sande
- Français
- Sables de Chagny
- English
- Chagny Sands
- Origin of the Name
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Chagny (France), près de Beaune
- Historical Variants
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Sables de Chagny (Depéret et al. 1923, Denizot etal. 1957), Sande von Chagny = Chagnysande (Liniger & Hofmann 1965), Formation supérieure de la Forêt de Chaux > niveau de Chagny (BRGM-Doubs)
Components
Fossil Content
- mammals
Tapir, Mastodon, Elephas meridionalis
Age
- Age at top
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- late Pliocene
- Age at base
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- late Pliocene
- Dating Method
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Villafranchien ancien (Bourdier et al. 1956)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Fossé de Bresse.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic