Marnes à foraminifères
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Foraminiferen-Mergel
- Français
- Marnes à foraminifères
- Italiano
- Marna a foraminiferi
- English
- Foraminifera Marl
- Historical Variants
- Marnes à Foraminifères (Charollais et al. 1980, Lateltin 1988), marnes à foraminifères (Lateltin & Müller 1987), Marnes à foraminifères (Pairis et al. 1992)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- Proposition: Chérente (épaisseur max.)
Description
- Thickness
- 1-30 m dans les Aravis (Lateltin & Müller 1987)
Components
Fossil Content
- gastropods
- crinoids
- foraminifera
- echinoids
- shark teeth
- pectinids
- bivalves
- ostracods
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
-
- Rupelian
- Note about top
- P18-19? / NP21
- Age at base
-
- Priabonian
- Dating Method
- Ludien-Sannoisien (Lateltin 1988)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Savoie et Suisse occidentale.
- Type area
- massif des Bornes
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary