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Comment on the article by the Schweizerisches Komitee für Stratigraphie (SJG, Vol 102/2) What is in a stratigraphical name? = Neubenennungen lithostratigraphischer Einheiten in der helvetischen Kreide (Schweizerisches Komitee für Stratigraphie (Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102/2)

Föllmi, Karl

In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2009, vol. 102, no. 3, p. 515-518

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    Titre
    • Comment on the article by the Schweizerisches Komitee für Stratigraphie (SJG, Vol 102/2) What is in a stratigraphical name?
    Titre traduit ()
    • Neubenennungen lithostratigraphischer Einheiten in der helvetischen Kreide (Schweizerisches Komitee für Stratigraphie (Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102/2)
    Auteur
    • Föllmi, Karl. Institut de Géologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lausanne, Anthropole, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2009, vol. 102, no. 3, p. 515-518. Birkhäuser-Verlag; www.birkhäuser.ch
    Autre version électronique
    Classification
    • Sciences de la terre
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:320547
    Summary
    The two newly defined lithostratigraphic units - the Rohrbachstein and Plaine-Morte Beds - within the recently reinstated Grünten Member (former "Upper Orbitolina Beds") embody characteristic lithostratigraphic units, which are well distinguishable in the field. They furthermore bear significant paleoceanographic information in that they document the final drowning episode of the Schrattenkalk carbonate platform (Rohrbachstein Bed) and overlap with oceanic anoxic event 1a ("Selli event": Plaine-Morte Bed). Their use is in line with a long-standing tradition to name individual phosphate- and glauconite-containing marker beds and is fully justified with respect to the Swiss guidelines of stratigraphical nomenclature (Remane et al. 2005)