Calcaire d'eau douce de Delémont
Back to Molasse of the JuraRepresentation and status
- Index
- o3D
- Color CMYK
- (0%,4%,49%,4%)
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 235 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Delsberg-Süsswasserkalk
- Français
- Calcaire d'eau douce de Delémont
- Italiano
- Calcare d'acqua dolce di Delémont
- English
- Delémont Freshwater Limestone
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Delsbergerkalk (Tobler 1905 Tab.2a), Delsberger Süsswasserkalk (Baltzer 1906), Aquitanien supérieur = Calcaires delémontiens = Molasse delémontienne (Rollier 1910), «Obere Süsswasserkalke» (Baumberger 1927), Delsberger Kalke (Antenen 1978), Calcaires delémontiens (Picot et al. 1999), Obere Süsswasserkalke = Delsberger Süsswasserkalk (Bitterli et al. 2011), Calcaires delémontiens Formation (Mennecart 2012), Delsberg-Süsswasserkalk (Bläsi et al. 2018), Calcaires delémontiens = Delsberer Süsswasserkalk (Mojon et al. 2018)
Description
- Thickness
- Jusqu'à 300 m à Reconvilier (Aufranc et al. 2016); max. 15 m dans le bassin de Delémont
Components
- mammals
Säugetierfundstellen: Brochene Fluh 4/5, Brochene Fluh 19/20, Brochene Fluh 53, Waldenburg-Humbel
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
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Es liegt eine stratigraphische Lücke vor.
Age
- Age at top
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- early Aquitanian
- Age at base
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- late Chattian
- Dating Method
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Micromammifères des niveaux MP29-MN1 (Engesser 1990, Picot et al. 1999, Mennecart et al. 2008, Mennecart 2012, Mojon et al. 2018)
Geography
- Type area
- Bassin de Delémont
- Type locality
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Tiergarten (JU), Val Terbi
Site particularities- typische Fazies
- (2600990 / 1241500)
- Picot et al. 1999
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Tiergarten (JU), Val Terbi
- Reference profiles
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Brochene Fluh (BL), Waldenburg
Site particularities- typische Fazies
- (2622000 / 1247440)
- Engesser 1990, Berger 1992 et Mennecart 2012 (biostratigraphie), Schlunegger et al. 1996 (magnétostratigraphie), Picot et al. 1999
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Brochene Fluh (BL), Waldenburg
Palaenography and tectonic
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- USM-J
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic