User:JohannesLochmann/Sandbox/Werfen-Formation

=History=

The Werfen-Formation was first described in 1832 by the Geologist A. Lill v. Lilienbach. The Formation was named after the city after the town Werfen 40 kilometers south of the city of Salzburg in Austria.

=Definition and Distribution=

The outcrops of the Werfen-Formation start in the East-Alpine of the "Tiroler Unterland" between Schwaz and Wörgl and stretch untilt the Alpine Buntsandstein. The formation reaches a thickness of up to 300 Meters. Some authors describe a maximum thickness of more thant 500 Meters.

The Werfen-Formation lies on the Alpine Haselgebirge-Formation or discordantly on the Gray Wacky Zone. . Above the Werfen-Formation follows the Reichenhall-Formation which interlocks with the Alpinen Buntsandstein-Formation to the West In the South Alpine the Werfen-Formation reches a thickness of up to 400 meters and lies on the Bellerophon-Formation. Above the Werfen-Formation follows the Richthofen-Konglomerat or the Unterer Sarl-Dolomit.

=Subformations=

South Alpine Subformation
=Fossils= =Minerals= =References=

=Weblinks=

Stratigraphic Table of Austria, PDF-File