Stratigraphy and facies development of the Muschelkalk in the south-western Holy Cross Mts

Abstract

Lithology and facies development of the Muschelkalk in the south-western Mesozoic margin of the Holy Cross Mts are discussed. Conodont datings made it possible to correlate Muschelkalk sections from Germany and the Holy Cross Mts; it was shown, that the Muschelkalk section of the latter corresponds to the Alpine chronostratigraphic units - Anisian and Lower Ladinian (Fassanian). The analysis of conodont assemblages evidences that the Holy Cross area successively belonged during the Muschelkalk to three different paleobiogeographic provinces: Asiatic, Austro-Alpine, and German.