Grès de Boisset

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(0%,0%,0%,100%)

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Boisset-Sandstein

Français

Grès de Boisset

Italiano

Arenaria di Boisset

English

Boisset Sandstone

Origin of the Name

Carrières de Boisset (France), SSE Salins-les-Bains

Historical Variants

Weisser Sandstein auct., Grès infraliasique, Grès de Boisset (Marcou 1848, Mouterde 1956, Caire 1970)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Hauptrogenstein [CH]

Units at roof

• Obere Acuminata-Schichten
• Oberer Teil des Hauptrogensteins
• Homomyenmergel

Units at floor

• Passwang-Formation
• Rothenfluh-Member

Age

Age at top

• Rhaetian

Age at base

• Rhaetian

Geography

Type area

Jura salinois (France)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Triassic of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura-FR

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

Marcou Jules (1848) : Recherches géologiques sur le Jura salinois Mémoire de la Société géologique de France (2), 3/1, 151

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