«Malmkalk»
Representation and status
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Malmkalk»
- Français
- «Calcaire du Malm»
- Italiano
- «Calcaro del Malm»
- English
- «Malm Limestone»
- Historical Variants
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calcaire du Malm, Malm supérieur, Calcaire jurassique supérieur (Renevier 1890), Tithon = Tithonbildungen = Tithonkalke (Seeber 1911), Untertithon-Kimeridgien-Séquanien = Tithonkalke (Günzler-Seiffert 1933), Séquanien - Kimmeridgien - Tithon (Furrer 1938), Malmkalk (Maync 1938, Schenker 1946, Grasmück 1961, Herb et al. 1978), Kimeridge-Tithon = Malmkalk (Staeger 1944), calcaires noirs massifs du Tithonique (Maire 1977), Tithonique (Pairis et al. 1992)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Malm of the Helvetics
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic