Dürntenian

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

chronostratigraphy

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Dürntenien

Français

Dürntenien

Italiano

Dürnteniano

English

Dürntenian

Origin of the Name

Dürnten (ZH)

Historical Variants

Kohlenlager von Dürnten (Gutzwiller 1877), Durntenin (Mayer-Eymar 1888, Sacco 1888), interglacial beds at Dürnten = Dürnten lignites (Geikie 1894 p.554), Third Interglacial Phase = Neudeckian = Durntenian (Geikie 1914), Dürntenian (Osborn 1915)

References

Definition

Geikie James (1914) : The Antiquity Of Man In Europe. D. van Nostrand Company, New York

p.310: The Third Interglacial, formerly termed by me “Neudeckian,” I have now renamed Durntenian, in recognition of the fact that the deposits of that stage are best represented by the well-known lignite-beds of Durnten, etc., in Switzerland.

Important Publications

Osborn Henry Fairfield (1915) : Men of the Old Stone Age - their environment, life and art. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York