Sparnacian
Back to Time ScaleRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
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- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Sparnacien
- Français
- Sparnacien
- Italiano
- Sparnaciano
- English
- Sparnacian
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the town of Épernay = Sparnacum (Marne, France).
- Historical Variants
- Sparnacien (Dollfus 1877, Denizot et al. 1957)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- early Eocene
- Age at base
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- early Eocene
Geography
- Type area
- Paris Basin (France)
References
- Definition
- 1877) : Terrains tertiaires dans le Bassin anglo-parisien. Bull. Soc. géol. Normandie (1880) (
- Definition
- 1957) : Tertiaire (France, Belgique, Pays-Bas, Luxembourg). Lexique stratigraphique international, vol. 1 Europe, Fasc. 4a VII (