Grès d'Archamps

Representation and status

Color CMYK

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Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Archamps-Sandstein

Français

Grès d'Archamps

Italiano

Arenaria di Archamps

English

Archamps Sandstone

Origin of the Name

Archamps (France)

Historical Variants

Grès d'Archamp (Necker 1841, Renevier 1896), Archampsandstein = Grès d'Archamp = Grès de Verrières (Studer 1872)

Geography

Type area

Salève

Palaenography and tectonic

• Lower Freshwater Molasse

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Molasse

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Definition

Necker Louis Albert (1841) : Etudes géologiques dans les Alpes. (Paris)