Schelpen-Formation
Back to Rinderbach-Schichten (sensu Herb 1962)Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Schelpen-Formation
- Français
- Formation du Schelpen
- Italiano
- Formazione dello Schelpen
- English
- Schelpen Formation
- Origin of the Name
-
Schelpen (Vorarlberg), südliche von Balderschwang
- Historical Variants
-
Schelpen-Serie (Richter 1958, Felber & Wyssling 1979 S.701, Bayer 1982), Schelpenserie (Tollmann 1985)
Description
- Thickness
- > 100 m (Tollmann 1985)
Components
Fossil Content
- nummulites
- foraminifera
Nummuliten, Globorotalien
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
-
- Lutetian
- Age at base
-
- Danian
- Dating Method
-
Unteres bis mittleres Eozän (Tollmann 1985)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Vorarlberg.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Ultrahelvetic Domain
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Important Publications
-
(1980) : Der Geologische Aufbau Österreichs. Geologischen Bundesanstalt Österreich