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Definition of Muschelkalk

Muschelkalk
Muschelkalk Musch"el*kalk`, n. [G., from muschel shell + kalk limestone.] (Geol.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.

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- The Muschelkalk (German for "s****-bearing limestone"; French: calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit)...
- southern Germany: the lower Buntsandstein (colourful sandstone), the middle Muschelkalk (s****-bearing limestone) and the upper Keuper (coloured clay). Early...
- Palatine-Saarland Muschelkalk Region (German: Pfälzisch-Saarländische Muschelkalkgebiet) - or more accurately the Palatine-Saarland-Lorraine Muschelkalk Region...
- the Upper Muschelkalk and Lower Keuper; N. haasi and N. tchernovi from Makhtesh Ramon, Israel; N. cymatosauroides from the Spanish Muschelkalk; N. jagisteus...
- top of the Muschelkalk and under the predominantly Lower Jur****ic Lias or other Early Jur****ic strata. The Keuper together with the Muschelkalk and the Buntsandstein...
- covers a wide area, but is broken in places by bunter sandstone and muschelkalk – in particular the basalt kuppen of the Weiherberg (785.7 m (2,578 ft)...
- matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea". Central European Geology. 60...
- Hosselkus Limestone (Carnian, Late Tri****ic) of California, and also the Muschelkalk (Ladinian, Middle Tri****ic) of Germany. John Campbell Merriam (1902)...
- and is one of three characteristic Tri****ic units, together with the Muschelkalk and Keuper that form the Germanic Trias Supergroup. The Buntsandstein...
- during the Ladinian stage of the Tri****ic period. It lies above the Upper Muschelkalk and below the Middle Keuper. The formation was defined in Erfurt-Melchendorf...