Kandern-Formation
Back to Southern GermanyRepresentation and status
- Index
- jmKA
- Color CMYK
- (6%,0%,31%,29%)
- Color RGB
- R: 170 G: 180 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Kandern-Formation
- Français
- Formation de Kandern
- Italiano
- Formazione di Kandern
- English
- Kandern Formation
- Origin of the Name
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Kleinstadt Kandern (Deutschland, Baden-Württemberg), siehe Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon Deutschland (LithoLex).
- Historical Variants
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Kandern-Formation (Bloos et al. 2005, LGRB 2016)
Description
- Thickness
- 80-106 m (LithoLex)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Age
- Age at top
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- early Oxfordian
- Note about top
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Codatum-Zone
- Age at base
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- late Callovian
- Note about base
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Lamberti-Zone
- Dating Method
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Ammoniten-Biostratigraphie.
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Oberrheingraben (Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland).
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Dogger of the Jura Mountains
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
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Renggeri-Member
- Name Origin
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Namengebendes Fossil: Ammonitenart Creniceras renggeri (Oppel).
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Status
- valid formal name
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- <p>marnes à fossiles pyriteux auct., marnes oxfordiennes auct.</p>
- In short
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Dunkelgrauer, homogener, mergeliger Tonstein an der Basis der Bärschwil-Formation. Im unteren Teil ist dieser fossilreich (Belemnitenbruchstücke und pyritisierte Ammoniten, wie Creniceras renggeri).
- Age
- early Oxfordian