Formazione dei Cavalli
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,11%,12%)
- Color RGB
- R: 225 G: 225 B: 200
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Cavalli-Formation
- Français
- Formation des Cavalli
- Italiano
- Formazione dei Cavalli
- English
- Cavalli Formation
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Furgg-Serie (Wetzel 1972), Méta-arkose et métabasites de la zone de Furgg inférieure (Escher et al. 1987), Cavalli Formation = Furgg Permo-Carboniferous graywacke with basic boudins (Steck et al. 2015)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
-
- Permian
- Age at base
-
- Permian
- Dating Method
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Bearth 1952, Wetzel 1972, Steck et al. 2015
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Valle di Loranco
Palaenography and tectonic
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
-
2015) :
Tectonics of the Monte Rosa and surrounding nappes (Switzerland and Italy): Tertiary phases of subduction, thrusting and folding in the Pennine Alps. Swiss J. Geosc. 108/1, 3-34
(
p.11: A complete section through the sedimentary sequence of
the Furgg series is exposed at the Passo della Preja (Fig. 6;
Steck et al. 2001). The layers of meta-graywacke, metaarkose, mica quartzite and micaschist with numerous amphibolite boudins, of the Cavalli Formation show a tectonic contact with the Antrona ophiolite.