«Valanginien calcaire» (du Jura)

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Valanginienkalk» (des Juragebirges)

Français

«Valanginien calcaire» (du Jura)

English

«Valanginian Limestone» (of the Jura Mountains)

Origin of the Name

Valangin (NE)

Historical Variants

Calcaire compact = marbre bâtard (Greppin 1866), Kalksteine des Valanginien (de Quervain 1969)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• «Hauterivien marneux»

Units at floor

• «Valanginien marneux» (du Jura)

Geography

Type locality

• Valangin (NE)
  Coordinates
  • (2559560 / 1207200)

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic