• Upper Rhine Graben

    Origin of the Name

    Vallée du Haut Rhin (France)/(Deutschland) [siehe auch www.oberrheingraben.de]

    Rank
    tectonic subdomain
    Status
    valid
    Age
    Cenozoic
    In short

    The NNE–SSW trending Upper Rhine Graben is a segment of the European Cenozoic Rift System located north of Basel, filled with Paleogene–Neogene sediments of 2–3 km thickness. It is up to 40 km wide and separates the Haute-Saône Platform to the west from the South German Platform to the east. The graben shoulders are bounded by steep normal faults and include isolated, lowered blocks of Mesozoic platform sediments along the rift-internal sides (the so-called Vorberg Zone, e.g., Isteiner Klotz north of Basel). The Schwarzwald Fault forms the eastern border of the graben. The southwestern border of the graben with the Haute-Saône Platform forms a flexure. In the southeast, the graben borders the External Folded Jura; the corresponding flexure is accentuated and overprinted by Alpine deformation.

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    • Mainz-Becken

      Name Origin

      Mainz (Deutschland), Rheinland-Pfalz

      Rank
      sedimentary basin
      Status
      informal term
      In short

      Bassin de sédimentation oligocène-miocène de la partie septentrionale du Fossé du Haut-Rhin.

      Age
      Oligocene
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    • Vorberg-Zone (des Oberrhein-Grabens)

      Name Origin

      siehe Wikipedia

      Rank
      tectonic zone
      Status
      informal term
      In short

      The Vorberg Zone encompasses blocks of Mesozoic platform sediments lowered along steep normal faults at the rift-internal sides of the Upper Rhine Graben (e.g., Isteiner Klotz north of Basel).

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      • Isteiner Horst («Isteiner Klotz»)

        Name Origin

        Istein (Deutschland)

        Rank
        tectonic unit
        Status
        local name (informal)
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        • Wohlgeschichtete-Kalke-Formation

          Name Origin

          Siehe Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon Deutschland (LithoLex).

          Rank
          lithostratigraphic Formation
          Status
          valid formal name
          In short

          Dünngebankter mikritischer Kalk.

          Age
          late Oxfordian
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        • «Leitschichten»

          Rank
          lithostratigraphic unit
          Status
          incorrect name (though informally used)
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        • «Grenzmergelhorizont»

          Rank
          lithostratigraphic Bed
          Status
          local name (informal)
          Valid term
          Roeschenz-Member
          In short

          Kalkmergel-Horizont zwischen ungeschichtete Kalke des «Rauraciens» (unten) und wohlgeschichtete Kalke des «Séquaniens» (oben).

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        • «Splitterkalk»

          Name Origin

          Splitterige, harte und spröde Kalke

          Rank
          lithostratigraphic Bed
          Status
          local name (informal)
          Valid term
          Tiergarten-Member Buix-Member
          In short

          Spröder, dichter, weisser bis gelblicher mikritischer Kalk, gegen oben oolithisch.

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          • «Jaspisknollen»

            Rank
            lithostratigraphic Bed
            Status
            local name (informal)
            Valid term
            Buix-Member
            In short

            Lokaler Leithorizont mit Silexknollen im mittleren Teil des «Splitterkalkes».

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        • «Rauracien-Korallenkalk»

          Name Origin

          Rauraci: peuple gaulois qui vivait à l'ouest de Bâle

          Rank
          petrographic facies
          Status
          obsolete term (disused)
          Valid term
          Grellingen-Member
          In short

          Koralligenen Fazies der St-Ursanne-Formation (Bioherme und Biostrome).

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        • «Thamnastraeen-Mergel»

          Name Origin

          Namengebendes Fossil (Korallen): Thamnastraea arachnoides Parkinson.

          Rank
          lithostratigraphic unit
          Status
          obsolete term (disused)
          Valid term
          Liesberg-Member
          In short

          Blaugraue, etwas sandige Mergel mit zahlreichen mit häufiges Auftreten von leicht verkieselten Thamnastreen.(Korallenstöcke des «Unteren Rauraciens»).

          Age
          Oxfordian
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        • «Terrain à chailles (marno-calcaires)»

          Name Origin

          Présence de miches calcaires (et non de nodules de silex, comme le terme de chailles le fait penser).

          Rank
          lithostratigraphic unit
          Status
          incorrect term (disused)
          Valid term
          Sornetan-Member
          In short

          Marnes avec de grandes concrétions calcaires contenant de la glauconie et des ammonites.

          Age
          Oxfordian
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    • Kalibecken

      Rank
      paleogeography
      Status
      local name (informal)
      In short

      Bassin de sédimentation éocène-oligocène de la partie méridionale du Fossé du Haut-Rhin, caractérisé par une importante accumulation d'évaporites (Éocène tardif - Oligogcène précoce).

      Age
      middle Eocene
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      • Wittelsheimer Becken

        Rank
        paleogeography
        Status
        local name (informal)
        In short

        Cuvette occidentale du bassin potassique rhénan.

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      • Münchhauser Subbecken

        Rank
        paleogeography
        Status
        local name (informal)
        In short

        Cuvette centrale, peu marquée, du bassin potassique rhénan.

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      • Bugginger Becken

        Rank
        paleogeography
        Status
        local name (informal)
        In short

        Cuvette orientale du bassin potassique rhénan.

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      • graben de Dannemarie

        Name Origin

        Dannemarie (France)

        Rank
        tectonic
        Status
        local name (informal)
        In short

        Prolongation méridionale du bassin potassique rhénan (les évaporites n'y sont toutefois plus guère développées). L'accident d'Illfurt le sépare du horst de Mulhous à l'est.

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