«Oberer Muschelkalk»
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
- «Oberer Muschelkalk»
- Français
- «Muschelkalk supérieur»
- Italiano
- «Muschelkalk superiore»
- English
- «Upper Muschelkalk»
- Historical Variants
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Oberer Muschelkalk = Hauptmuschelkalk (Fraas 1910), oberer Muschelkalk (Disler 1914), Oberer Muschelkalk (Merki 1961, Hinsken 2003), Muschelkalk supérieur (Caire 1970)
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- Synonyms
Description
- Thickness
- 80 m im NW, 50 m im SE ; 15-60 m in der Umgebung von Salins (Caire 1970)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Ladinian
- Age at base
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- Late Anisian
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Germanic basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
:
Juragebirge
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Jura
:
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Important Publications
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1961) : Der obere Muschelkalk im östlichen Schweizer Jura. Eclogae geol. Helv. 54, 137–220(