Crétacé du Jura

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
(0%,1%,2%,5%)
Color RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rank
lithostratigraphic Group
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
incorrect name (though informally used)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Kreide des Juragebirges
Français
Crétacé du Jura
Italiano
Cretacico del Giura
English
Cretaceous of the Jura Moutains
Origin of the Name

Nom dérivé des dépôts caractéristiques de craie du bassin de Paris.

Historical Variants

formation crétacée (Greppin 1866), Kreideformation

Geography

Reference profiles
  • Forage du Morand (VD)
    Site particularities
    • Obergrenze
    • typische Fazies
    • Untergrenze
    Site accessibility
    • Bohrkern
    Coordinates
    • (2520025 / 1162180)
    Note
    • <p>Mornod 1969, Chapallaz et al. 1969, Jan du Chêne et al. 2016 (Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Lausanne).</p>

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

Important Publications
Schaer Jean-Paul (2006) : Les premières recherches sur le Crétacé de Neuchâtel. Bull. Soc. neuchât. Sci. nat. 129, 5-28

Material and varia

Images
logJura_Cretace.jpg
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