Weissenburg-Bad-Flysch

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(0%,0%,0%,100%)

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Weissenburg-Bad-Flysch

Français

Flysch du Weissenburg Bad

Italiano

Flysch del Weissenburg Bad

English

Weissenburg Bad Flysch

Origin of the Name

Weissenburg Bad (BE)

Historical Variants

Quarzreicher Weissenburg-Flysch = Kalksandstein vom Typus Hundsrück (Tschachtli 1941, Klaus in: Rutsch et al. 1966), Klippen-Flysch (Flück 1973), flysch supra-Médianes de Weissenburg Bad (Caron et al. 1980)

Age

Age at top

• early Thanetian

Note about top

NP5 (Z. à Fasciculithus tympaniformis)

Age at base

• early Thanetian

Note about base

NP5 (Z. à Fasciculithus tympaniformis)

Dating Method

Nannofossiles calcaires (Caron et al. 1980)

Geography

Type profile

• Bunschenbach = Buuschebach (BE)
  Coordinates
  • (2601955 / 1168430)
  Note
  • <p>Typusprofil des Weissenburg-Bad-Flysches</p>

Palaenography and tectonic

• Flyschs

Paleogeography

Piemont Basin

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Sarine

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Definition

Tschachtli B. S. (1941) : Ueber Flysch und Couches rouges in den Decken der östlichen Préalpes romandes (Simmental-Saanen). Inaug. Diss. Bern. Bern (Mettler & Salz)

S.63

Definition

Caron Christian, Homewood P., Morel R., van Stuijvenberg J. (1980) : Témoins de la Nappe du Gurnigel sur les Préalpes Médianes: une confirmation de son origine ultrabriançonnaise. Bull. Soc. fribourg. Sci. nat. 69/1, 64-79

p.74