«Kalkiges Liesberg-Member»

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

incorrect name (though informally used)

Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Kalkiges Liesberg-Member»

Français

«Partie calcaire du Membre de Liesberg»

English

«Calcareous part of the Liesberg Member»

Origin of the Name

Liesberg/Irtiemont (BL)

Description

Thickness

ca. 7 m

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Formation de St-Ursanne

Units at roof

• Grellingen-Member

Units at floor

• Bärschwil-Formation

Age

Age at top

• middle Oxfordian

Age at base

• middle Oxfordian

Dating Method

Ammoniten, Teil der Antecedens-Subzone

Geography

Geographical extent

Zentraler Schweizer Jura

Type profile

• Tongrube Hinter Chestel bei Liesbergmüli
  Coordinates
  • (2599660 / 1249570)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Malm of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Conditions of formation

"rauracien"

Metamorphism

non metamorphic