«Oberer Arietenkalk»

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
Rank
lithostratigraphic unit
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
obsolete term (disused)
Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Oberer Arietenkalk»
Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil: Ammonitengattung Arietites, insb. Arietites bucklandi Sowerby und Arietites bisulcatus.

Historical Variants

Oberer Arietenkalk (Moesch 1867, Mühlberg 1908)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Age

Age at top
  • early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
Note about top

jamesoni-Zone

Age at base
  • late Sinemurian
Note about base

Obtusum-Z.

Geography

Type area
Aargauer Jura

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Liassic of the Jura Moutains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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