Göstling formation
The Göstling Formation , also Göstlinger layers or Göstlinger Kalk, is a lithostratigraphic formation of the Triassic in the Northern Limestone Alps . The type locality is near Göstling an der Ybbs in the Lower Austrian Ybbstal.
history
The term Göstlinger layers was first used in 1864 by Marko Vincenc Lipold .
Definition and distribution area
The dark gray rocks of the thin Göstling Formation consist of finely layered pebbles and limestone layers, which have narrow marl layers and are bituminous. In places come chert nodules before. The Göstling Formation is limited to the eastern part of the Northern Limestone Alps, where it overlays in the southern part of the Reifling Formation . The Göstling formation itself is overlaid by the Reingraben formation .
Chronological order
The Göstling strata are dated to the early and middle Carnian .
Fossil guide
An ammonite come under other hadwigiae Protrachyceras , Trachyceras subaustriacum and Sirenites junonis ago. Medusa prints are also described several times . The microfauna is formed by floating crinoids and silica sponge needles, as well as conodonts and holothuria spines .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Tollmann: Analysis of the classical North Alpine Mesozoic. Stratigraphy, fauna and facies of the Northern Limestone Alps - Part II of the monograph of the Northern Limestone Alps, Verlag Deuticke, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7005-4412-X , p. 126.
- ↑ Alexander Tollmann: Analysis of the classical North Alpine Mesozoic. Stratigraphy, fauna and facies of the Northern Limestone Alps - Part II of the monograph of the Northern Limestone Alps, Verlag Deuticke, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7005-4412-X , p. 124ff.
- ↑ Alexander Tollmann: Analysis of the classical North Alpine Mesozoic. Stratigraphy, fauna and facies of the Northern Limestone Alps . Part II of the monograph of the Northern Limestone Alps, Verlag Deuticke, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7005-4412-X , p. 126f.
