«Calcaires tithoniques»
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Tithonkalk»
- Français
- «Calcaires tithoniques»
- Italiano
- «Calcare titonico»
- English
- «Tithonian Limestone»
- Origin of the Name
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voir le site geol-alp
- Historical Variants
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Tithon = Tithonbildungen = Tithonkalke (Seeber 1911), Untertithon-Kimeridgien-Séquanien = Tithonkalke (Günzler-Seiffert 1933), Séquanien - Kimmeridgien - Tithon (Furrer 1938), Kimeridge-Tithon = Malmkalk (Staeger 1944), calcaires noirs massifs du Tithonique (Maire 1977), barre tithonique, Tithon-Kalk (Ischi 1978), Calcaires du Tithonique (Charollais et al. 1988), Tithonique (Pairis et al. 1992)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Tithonian
- Age at base
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- late Oxfordian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Malm of the Helvetics
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary