Marnes de la Perte-du-Rhône

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Perte-du-Rhone-Mergel

Français

Marnes de la Perte-du-Rhône

Italiano

Marna della Perte-du-Rhône

English

Perte-du-Rhône Marl

Origin of the Name

Perte-du-Rhône, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (France)

Historical Variants

Aptien inférieur = Rhodanien = Marnes aptiennes = Marnes de la Perte du Rhône (Jaccard 1869)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Calcaires lités

Units at roof

• Grès de La Presta

Units at floor

• Roches du Mauremont (sensu de Tribolet 1859)

Age

Age at top

• Early Aptian

Age at base

• Early Aptian

Geography

Type locality

• Perte-du-Rhône, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (France)
  Coordinates
  • (2475560 / 1107400)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Cretaceous

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

Jaccard Auguste (1869) : Description géologique du Jura vaudois et neuchâtelois. Matér. Carte géol. Suisse 6, 340 pages