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Fig. 6

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. 6

Photos by P.-O. Mojon (2017).

Outcrops in the Early and Middle Miocene freshwater Molasse of the Swiss Jura and Plateau. a Calcaires delémontiens (USM, Early Aquitanian), small section in Courfaivre (Jura). b, d Molasse grise de Lausanne/MGL (USM, Late Aquitanian, Plateau), sections of Marnand streambed (b palustrine grey marls below the hammer in red frame, MN 2a-b transition) and Cheyres (c roadside section with palustrine red marls of MN 2b; d Château de Font section with contact of clayey marls of floodplain between MGL and OMM, upper part of the cliff about 6 m thick, coord. 2552.180/1187.160 from the map of Switzerland 1:25’000). e, f Lower “Oeningian” (OSM-J) of La Grecque section, Les Varodes nearby Le Locle (Jura), palustrine dark marls with lacustrine whitish and chalky limestones of the Langhian–Serravallian transition (strongly straightened beds in the edge of the syncline). The hammer (red frame in b, f) is 31.5 cm long. 

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