Badenium
The Badenium (also Baden level or Badenien ) is a regional chronostratigraphic level in the Miocene ( Neogene ) of the central Paratethys area. It is correlated in international chronostratigraphy with the level of the Langhian and the lower part of the Serravallian . The Badenium is to be placed in the period of around 16 to 13.3 million years.
In the central Paratethys - and to this day in the underground of many tertiary sedimentary basins such as the Pannonian and the Vienna Basin - the regional stage of Baden is from that of the Karpat underlain and by the regional stage of Pannon and Sarmat superimposed. Which of these layers is thickest (mostly the Badeniun in the border region between Austria and Hungary) depends on the sedimentation conditions at the time.
Naming and stratotype
The stage is named after Baden near Vienna in southern Lower Austria . The stratotype profile is near Sooss , south of Baden. This stage was proposed by Adolf Papp and Ján Chicha in 1968. It found and is almost universally used in scientific work in the field of Paratethys .
definition
The lower limit of the regional level is marked by the first appearance of orbular foraminifera . So it coincides with the Burdigalium - Langhium limit. The upper limit is the beginning of the Paratethys liquor. It lies roughly in the middle of the international level of the Serravallium .
Breakdown
The Badenium is divided into three sub-levels:
literature
- Adolf Papp, Ján Cicha, Ján Seneš and Fritz Steininger (eds.): Chronostratigraphy and Neostratotypes Miocene of the Central Paratethys. Volume VI M 4 Badenia (Moravia, Wielicia, Kosovia). 594 pp., Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 1978.