Höckler-Süsswasserkalk

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(10%,0%,0%,2%)

Color RGB

R: 225 G: 250 B: 250

Rank

lithostratigraphic Bed

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Höckler-Süsswasserkalk

Français

Calcaire d'eau douce de Höckler

Italiano

Calcare d'acqua dolce di Höckler

English

Höckler Freshwater Limestone

Origin of the Name

Höckler (ZH), südlich von Zürich

Historical Variants

LN Höckler (Gubler 1987), Limnisches Niveau Wehrenbach-Höckler (Gubler 2009)

Age

Age at top

• Langhian

Age at base

• Langhian

Geography

Type locality

• Höcklerbrücke (ZH), Zürich
  Site particularities
  • typische Fazies
  Coordinates
  • (2681835 / 1244010)
  Note
  • Pavoni 1960, Gubler 1987

Palaenography and tectonic

• OSM-II

Paleogeography

North Alpine Foreland Basin

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary