Calcaire d'Orbagnoux

Representation and status

Color CMYK

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Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

valid formal name

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Orbagnoux-Kalk

Français

Calcaire d'Orbagnoux

Italiano

Calcare di Orbagnoux

English

Orbagnoux Limestone

Origin of the Name

Orbagnoux (France)

Historical Variants

Calcaires en plaquettes auct., Calcaires d'Orbagnoux = Calcaires bitumineux d'Orbagnoux (Enay 2018)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• Membre du Chailley

Age

Age at top

• Late Kimmeridgian

Age at base

• Late Kimmeridgian

Palaenography and tectonic

• Malm of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura méridional

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Definition

Enay Raymond (2018) : Lithostratigraphie, biostratigraphie et faunes d’ammonites du complexe corallien d’âge kimméridgien supérieur du Jura méridional et de l’Ile Crémieu (France). Revue de Paléobiologie (Genève) 37/1, 41-108