«Merligen-Schichten»
Representation and status
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Merligen-Schichten»
- Français
- «Couches de Merligen»
- Italiano
- «Strati di Merligen»
- English
- «Merligen Beds»
- Origin of the Name
-
Merlingen (BE), am Eingang des Justistales
- Historical Variants
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Merligschichten = untersten schiefrigen Partien des Neocom des Justistals (Mayer-Eymar 1867), Couches de Merligen = Merligschiefer (Tschan in: Kaufmann 1886), Couches de Merligen = Palfris-Formation (Burger & Strasser 1981)
Age
- Age at top
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- Valanginian
- Age at base
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- Valanginian
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic