«Grande Oolithe»

Representation and status

Index

i2o

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

«Grosser Oolith»

Français

«Grande Oolithe»

English

«Great Oolite»

Historical Variants

Grande oolithe (Thirria 1830 p.10), Great-oolite (Thurmann 1832), Grande-Oolithe (Rollier 1882), grande-oolithe (Rollier 1893), Grande Oolite (Schardt 1905), Bath-Oolith

Description

Description

Oolithe à grain moyen en bancs épais.

Thickness

80 m (Rollier 1882)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Hauptrogenstein [CH]

Units at roof

• «Calcaire roux sableux»

Units at floor

• Marne du Furcil

Age

Age at top

• Bathonian

Age at base

• Bathonian

Palaenography and tectonic

• Dogger

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic