Wolfersdorf-Sandstein

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Representation and status

Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Wolfersdorf-Sandstein
Français
Grès de Wolfersdorf
Italiano
Arenaria di Wolfersdorf
English
Wolfersdorf Sandstone
Origin of the Name

Wolfersdorf (France)

Historical Variants

Faune marine de Wolfersdorf (Rollier 1910), Sables et marnes de Dannemarie et Wolfersdorf (Meyer 1928), Sables marins de Wolfersdorf (Gillet & Theobald 1936, Duringer 1988, Sittler 1992)

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

Definition
Pirkenseer Claudius, Rauber Gaëtan, Roussé Stéphane (2018) : A revised Palaeogene lithostratigraphic framework for the Northern Swiss Jura and the Southern Upper Rhine Graben and its relationship to the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Riv. Italiana Pal. Strat. 124/1, 163–246

p.217: A historically well-known part is the thin fossil-rich sandstone (formerly called “Sables marins de Wolfersdorf ”) in the lower part of the member. The absence of this fossiliferous sandstone in the drilling Hirtzbach (10 km distant) has been mentioned in Vonderschmitt (1942), further highlighting the regional restriction of the members of the Wahlebach Fm.
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