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Fig. 3

From: New data on the biostratigraphy (charophytes, nannofossils, mammals) and lithostratigraphy of the Late Eocene to Early Late Miocene deposits in the Swiss Molasse Basin and Jura Mountains

Fig. 3

a Oberdorf section above the railway station and along the road to the Weissenstein (survey 2014 by P.-O. Mojon, amended and redrawn from fig. 13 of Rollier 1910). Bolustone: reddish-grey calcareous clays with iron pisolites (Bohnerz). 1: Yellowish ferruginous lacustrine limestone and some thin marly layers with charophytes (Oberdorf Süsswasserkalk). 2: Red-brown clays with iron pisolites (Bräunlichrote Bolustone, z.T. mit Bohnerz). 3: Grey clayey marls. 4–5: Lower calcareous marl and greenish-grey marls with pisolites. 6: Dysodile: thin laminated calcareous layer with fossil fishes and ostracods. 7–8: Lower thin calcareous layers and blue-grey marls. 9: Whitish lacustrine limestones with charophytes and gastropods (Hydrobiidae). 10: Blue-grey marls. 11: Grey limestone. 12: Greenish-grey marls. 13: Lacustrine limestones and marly layers, upper part with lignitic interbeds (14) containing compressed lacustrine and terrestrial gastropods (Planorbidae, Lymnaeidae, Helicidae). 15: Sandy marls. 16: Moraine of the last glaciation with alpine blocks and topsoil. b Log of the Del 1/Rossemaison borehole (survey 1990 by M. Weidmann, detailed description in the text).

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