Calcaire de Grange Neuve

Representation and status

Rank
lithostratigraphic unit
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Grange-Neuve-Kalk
Français
Calcaire de Grange Neuve
Italiano
Calcare di Grange Neuve
English
Grange Neuve Limestone
Origin of the Name

Grange Neuve

Historical Variants

Calcaires crayeux à céphalopodes (Bernier 1984a), Calcaires crayeux supérieurs (Bernier & Gaillard 1979/1980, Bernier & Courtinat 1979), Calcaires de Grange Neuve (Enay 2018)

Age

Age at top
  • Late Kimmeridgian
Age at base
  • Late Kimmeridgian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Malm of the Jura Mountains
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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