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Upper Rhine Graben
- Origin of the Name
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Vallée du Haut Rhin (France)/(Deutschland) [siehe auch www.oberrheingraben.de]
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- valid
- Age
- Cenozoic
- In short
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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
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Mainz (Deutschland), Rheinland-Pfalz
- Rank
- sedimentary basin
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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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
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siehe Wikipedia
- Rank
- tectonic zone
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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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
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Istein (Deutschland)
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
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Wohlgeschichtete-Kalke-Formation
- Name Origin
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Siehe Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon Deutschland (LithoLex).
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
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Dünngebankter mikritischer Kalk.
- Age
- late Oxfordian
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«Leitschichten»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
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«Nerineenkalk» (Séquanien)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- incorrect term (disused)
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«Mumienbank»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
- Valid term
- Hauptmumienbank-Member
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«Trümmerbank»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
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«Grenzmergelhorizont»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Valid term
- Roeschenz-Member
- In short
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Kalkmergel-Horizont zwischen ungeschichtete Kalke des «Rauraciens» (unten) und wohlgeschichtete Kalke des «Séquaniens» (oben).
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«Splitterkalk»
- Name Origin
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Splitterige, harte und spröde Kalke
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Valid term
- Tiergarten-Member Buix-Member
- In short
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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
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Lokaler Leithorizont mit Silexknollen im mittleren Teil des «Splitterkalkes».
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«Rauracien-Korallenkalk»
- Name Origin
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Rauraci: peuple gaulois qui vivait à l'ouest de Bâle
- Rank
- petrographic facies
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
- Valid term
- Grellingen-Member
- In short
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Koralligenen Fazies der St-Ursanne-Formation (Bioherme und Biostrome).
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«Thamnastraeen-Mergel»
- Name Origin
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Namengebendes Fossil (Korallen): Thamnastraea arachnoides Parkinson.
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
- Valid term
- Liesberg-Member
- In short
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cuvette occidentale du bassin potassique rhénan.
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Münchhauser Subbecken
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Cuvette centrale, peu marquée, du bassin potassique rhénan.
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Bugginger Becken
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Cuvette orientale du bassin potassique rhénan.
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graben de Dannemarie
- Name Origin
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Dannemarie (France)
- Rank
- tectonic
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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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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