Weinstetten-Subformation
Back to Quaternary of the southern Upper Rhine GrabenRepresentation and status
- Index
- qBRu
- Color RGB
- R: 205 G: 190 B: 190
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
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- Weinstetten-Subformation
- English
- Weinstetten Subformation
- Historical Variants
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Untere Breisgau-Schichten = Weinstetten-Subformation (Ellwanger et al. 2011, LGRB 2011), Weinstetten-Subformation = Lower Breisgau Formation (Graf 2024)
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Pleistocene
- Age at base
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- Early Pleistocene
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Südlicher Oberrhein-Graben (Geiswasser-Becken).
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic