Calcaire d'eau douce de Rainson
Back to Molasse of the JuraRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 255 G: 235 B: 190
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Rainson-Süsswasserkalk
- Français
- Calcaire d'eau douce de Rainson
- Italiano
- Calcare d'aqua dolce di Rainson
- English
- Rainson Freshwater Limestone
- Origin of the Name
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Colline de Rainson = Rinzon (BE) entre Courtelary et Cortébert
- Historical Variants
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calcaire d'eau douce supérieur = oeningien = calcaires oeningiens de Rainson (Rollier 1892a), Öningerkalk (Tobler 1905 Tab.2a)
Components
Fossil Content
- plants : Plantae
Heer 1865 S.289
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Vallon de Saint-Imier.
- Type area
- Vallon de Saint-Imier (BE)
- Type locality
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Rinzon = Rainson (BE)
Site particularities- typische Fazies
- Steinbruch, Tongrube
- (2573300 / 1226440)
- Aufschlüsse im Hohlweg und in der Sandgrube am W-Fuss des Rinzon (Rainson), ca. 1.8 km NE von Courtelary (Waibel & Burri 1961 ; siehe auch Rollier 1892a p.50)
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Rinzon = Rainson (BE)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- OSM-J
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic