Mainz-Becken
Back to Upper Rhine GrabenRepresentation and status
- Index
- MzB
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 230 G: 235 B: 240
- Rank
- sedimentary basin
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Mainz-Becken
- Français
- bassin de Mayence
- Italiano
- bacino di Magonza
- English
- Mainz basin
- Origin of the Name
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Mainz (Deutschland), Rheinland-Pfalz
- Historical Variants
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Mainz Basin, golfe de Mayence (Rollier 1893)
Age
- Age at top
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- early Miocene
- Age at base
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- Oligocene
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Rhine Graben
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)