«Brèches ocre-rouge»

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Representation 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

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
  • Early Tithonian
Note about top

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
  • Late Kimmeridgian
Dating Method

Biostratigraphie des ammonites et brachiopodes (Enay & Boullier 2000)

Geography

Geographical extent
Salève.

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Malm of the Jura Mountains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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