«Globigerinenmergel»
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- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- incorrect term (disused)
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Globigerinenmergel»
- Français
- «Marnes à Globigérines»
- Italiano
- «Marna a Globigerina»
- English
- «Globigerina Marls»
- Origin of the Name
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Namengebendes Fossil: Foraminiferen-Familie Globigerinoidea (basierend auf die Gattung Globigerina d'Orbigny 1826).
- Historical Variants
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schistes à Globigérines (Boussac 1909b), Schistes argileux à globigérines (Lugeon 1910), Schistes nummulitiques (Boussac 1912, Badoux 1945, Badoux 1946), Schistes à Globigérines (Schroeder & Ducloz 1955, Pairis & Pairis 1975), Globigerinenmergel = Globigerina Marls (Kuhn 1972), Marnes à Globigérines, Marnes à Foraminifères, Globigerinenschiefer (Steffen 1981), Globigerinenmergel (Bayer 1982, Linder 2002), Globigerinenmergel = Globigerina Marl (Piller et al. 2022)
Description
- Thickness
- 70-100 m (Wildhorn-Decke), 30 m (Doldenhorn-Decke)
Components
Fossil Content
- algae
- foraminifera
Globigerinen, Dasycladacea
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Upper boundary
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Flysch
- Lower boundary
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"Nummulitique"
Age
- Age at top
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- middle Eocene
- Age at base
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- middle Eocene
- Note about base
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late Middle Eocene
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Paleogene of the Helvetics
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary