Untere Seelandschotter

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(11%,0%,16%,14%)

Color RGB

R: 195 G: 220 B: 185

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Untere Seelandschotter

Français

Gravier inférieur du Seeland

English

Lower Seeland Gravel

Origin of the Name

Berner Seeland (BE)

Historical Variants

ältere Schotter (Aeberhardt 1903), ältere Seelandschotter = Aeltere Seelandschotter (Nussbaum 1907), Untere Seelandschotter von Ins und Müntschemier (Wohlfahrt-Meyer 1987), Ältere Seelandschottern (Bläsi et al. 2015)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• Treiten-Seetone

Age

Age at top

• Middle Pleistocene

Age at base

• Middle Pleistocene

Geography

Geographical extent

Meikirch, Wiggiswil, Arch, Büttenberg, Fräschels, Kerzers, Lyss, Busswil, Walperswil, Sutz (Aeberhardt 1903).

Type area

Seeland (BE/FR)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Hochterrasse

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Conditions of formation

Proglaziales verweigtes Fluss-System.