Scheck-Member

Representation and status

Color RGB

R: 195 G: 140 B: 170

Rank

lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Scheck-Member

English

Scheck Member

Historical Variants

Adneter Scheck, Hauptknollenbreccie (Vortisch 1970), Scheck-Member = Liassic red limestone-breccias of the Adnet Formation (Böhm et al. 1995)

Description

Thickness

n-40 m (Böhm et al. 1995)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Adnet-Kalk

Units at roof

• Saubach-Member

Units at floor

• Kehlbach-Member

Age

Age at top

• early Toarcian

Age at base

• Pliensbachian

Palaenography and tectonic

• Liassic of the Austroalpine

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Austroalpine

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

Böhm Florian, Dommergues Jean-Louis, Meister Christian (1995) : Breccias of the Adnet Formation: indicators of a Mid-Liassic tectonic event in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Salzburg/Austria). Geol. Rundschau 84, 272-286

p.273: The Scheck Member consists of one massive layer of amalgamated breccia beds. In most sections it is is only a few metres thick, but expands to 40 m at Kehlbach. It is named after the famous 'Scheck', but also comprises other varieties of breccias described in this paper. Good exposures are found at Adnet ('Scheckbruch', quarry 22 of Kieslinger 1964), Gaigau, Kehlbach and Glasenbach. Its age is late Carixian or Domerian to early Toarcian.