Argiles de Saint-Cosme
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Saint-Cosme-Tone
- Français
- Argiles de Saint-Cosme
- English
- Saint-Cosme Clay
- Historical Variants
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argiles de Saint-Cosme = argiles à varves de Saint-Cosme (Bourdier et al. 1956), Formation supérieure de la Forêt de Chaux > niveau de Saint-Cosme (BRGM-Doubs)
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Pleistocene
- Age at base
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- late Pliocene
- Dating Method
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Villafranchien (Bourdier et al. 1956)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Châlon-sur-Saône.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary