Formation de Pulversheim
Back to Hochberg-FormationRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,32%,54%,2%)
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 170 B: 115
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Pulversheim-Formation
- Français
- Formation de Pulversheim
- Italiano
- Formazione di Pulversheim
- English
- Pulversheim Formation
- Origin of the Name
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Pulversheim (France, Haut-Rhin), au nord de Mulhouse
- Historical Variants
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Septarienton auct., Melettaschichten auct., Pulversheim Formation (Pirkenseer et al. 2018)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
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Correspond aux «Melettaschichten» auct. et au «Septarienton» (s.s.) auct. du fossé du Haut Rhin.
Description
- Description
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Grauer bis blauer massiver Mergel, laminierter Mergel mit feinen siltigen oder sandig-glimmerigen Einlagerungen.
- Thickness
- 2-4 m dans le bassin de Delémont, 257 m à la localité-type, max. 400 m (Pirkenseer et al. 2018).
Components
- fish
- fish scales
- plants : Plantae
Age
- Age at top
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- late Rupelian
- Age at base
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- late Rupelian
- Dating Method
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Daté par encadrement (Pirkenseer et al. 2018).
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Oberrhein-Graben, Ajoie et bassin de Delémont. Unité présente sous forme condensée dans le bassin de Laufon.
- Type area
- Oberrhein-Graben
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Rhine Graben
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
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(2018) :
A revised Palaeogene lithostratigraphic framework for the Northern Swiss Jura and the Southern Upper Rhine Graben and its relationship to the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Riv. Italiana Pal. Strat. 124/1, 163–246
p.203: The Pulversheim Fm consists mainly of grey to blue massive marls, marls laminated with thin layers of silt or fine sand and marls with intercalated centimetric micaceous fine sand layers and lentils. Fine sands and silts feature planar or rippled bedding (Fig. 25). Massive or rippled fine to medium sand bancs containing plant debris or basal mud intraclasts are occasionally intercalated (Fig. 26). At the base of the Pulversheim Fm millimetric layers of the underlying Hochberg Fm facies may be present. Macrofossils are rare.