Calcaire d'Hauterive

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Hauterive-Kalk

Français

Calcaire d'Hauterive

Italiano

Calcare di Hauterive

English

Hauterive Limestone

Origin of the Name

Hauterive (NE)

Historical Variants

pierre calcaire jaune tendre (Haute-Rive) (de Razoumowsky 1789 p.152), Calcaires jaunes de Neuchâtel et Hauterive (Rollier 1917)

Geography

Type locality

• Hauterive (NE)
  Coordinates
  • (2565300 / 1207620)

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic