Membre de la Fulie

Representation and status

Color CMYK

0/55/35/0

Color RGB

R: 240 G: 145 B: 145

Rank

lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Fulie-Member

Français

Membre de la Fulie

Italiano

Membro della Fulie

English

Fulie Member

Origin of the Name

La Fulie (FR-01)), ruisseau au SW de Bellegarde-sur-Valserine

Historical Variants

«Bédoulien inférieur» p.p. de la région de Bellegarde (Donzeau et al. 1997), Fulie Member (Pictet et al. 2016, Brentini 2018)

Description

Thickness

0-10 m

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Formation de la Perte-du-Rhône

Subordinate units

• Marnes du Mortier
• Couches de Vauglène
• Banc du Poet

Units at roof

• Membre de Mussel

Units at floor

• Membre de Vallorbe

Lower boundary

Repose en discordance sur la surface érodée de la Formation de Vallorbe.

Age

Age at top

• Late Aptian

Note about top

Zone à Epicheloniceras martini et base de la Zone à Parahoplites melchioris (début de l'Aptien tardif).

Age at base

• Early Aptian

Note about base

Zone à D. forbesi et D. deshayesi

Dating Method

Biostratigraphie des ammonites (Pictet et al. 2016).

Geography

Type area

Jura méridional

Type locality

• La Fulie (Ain, France), SW Bellegarde-sur-Valserine
  Site particularities
  • typische Fazies
  Coordinates
  • (2474220 / 1107590)
  Note
  • Jayet 1927

Palaenography and tectonic

• Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

Pictet Antoine, Delamette Michel, Matrion Bertrand (2016) : The Perte-du-Rhône Formation, a new Cretaceous (Aptian-Cenomanian) lithostratigraphic unit in the Jura mountains (France and Switzerland). Swiss J. Geosc. 109/2, 221-240

Material and varia