«Brèches ocre-rouge»
Back to SalèveRepresentation and status
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Brèches ocre-rouge»
- Français
- «Brèches ocre-rouge»
- Italiano
- «Brèches ocre-rouge»
- English
- «Brèches ocre-rouge»
- Historical Variants
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Brèches rouges = niveaux 4 à 7 (Deville 1988), Brèches ocre-rouge (Deville 1990), Brèches coralliennes du Coin (Deville 1991)
Description
- Thickness
- 15 m (Deville 1990)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Tithonian
- Note about top
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Sublithacoceras sp. dans le dernier banc bréchique (Enay & Boullier 2000) > entre le sommet de la zone à Beckeri (Kimméridgien terminal) et la zone à Penicillatum / Rothpletzi (Tithonien précoce)
- Age at base
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- Late Kimmeridgian
- Dating Method
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Biostratigraphie des ammonites et brachiopodes (Enay & Boullier 2000)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Salève.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Malm of the Jura Mountains
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic