Wolhusen-Bentonit
Back to Molasse BasinRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,4%,0%,0%)
- Color RGB
- R: 255 G: 245 B: 255
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Wolhusen-Bentonit
- Français
- Bentonite de Wolhusen
- Italiano
- Bentonite di Wolhusen
- English
- Wolhusen Bentonite
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- Bentonitvorkommen von Wolhusen (Pavoni & Schindler 1981), Wolhusen bentonite (Kälin & Kempf 2009)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- E-Teil des Napf-Schuttfächers.
- Type area
- E Napf-Gebiet
- Type locality
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Vorder Ämsere, 600 m südlich der Kirche Wolhusen
Site particularities- Obergrenze
- Untergrenze
- typische Fazies
- Bohrkern
- (2648000 / 1211330)
- M. Freimoser in: Pavoni & Schindler 1981
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Vorder Ämsere, 600 m südlich der Kirche Wolhusen
References
- Definition
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(2009) :
High-resolution stratigraphy from the continental record of the Middle Miocene Northern Alpine Foreland Basin of Switzerland. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 254/1-2, 177-235
On the eastern side of the Napf alluvial fan, near Wolhusen, a bentonite horizon has been described by PAVONI & SCHINDLER (1981). A correlation to the bentonite levels of the Zürich region is not yet established, however, given its lithostratigraphic position the Wolhusen bentonite is most probably equivalent to the Urdorf bentonite.