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The Cretaceous of the Swiss Jura Mountains: an improved lithostratigraphic scheme

Strasser, André ; Charollais, Jean ; Conrad, Marc André ; Clavel, Bernard ; Pictet, Antoine ; Mastrangelo, Bruno

In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2016, vol. 109, no. 2, p. 201–220

In the course of the HARMOS project of the Swiss Geological Survey, the lithostratigraphic subdivisions of the Cretaceous sedimentary rocks outcropping in the Swiss Jura Mountains were revisited. New formation names are proposed where only inadequate facies terms existed so far. As in some cases outcrop conditions in the Swiss Jura do not allow for logging complete sections to characterise...