Marmi e quarziti mineralizzate di Cignana
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Cignana-Marmor und -Quarzit
- Français
- Marbres et Quartzites de Cignana
- Italiano
- Marmi e quarziti mineralizzate di Cignana
- English
- Cignana Marbles and Quartzites
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- Lago di Cignana metasediments (Rubato et al. 1998), Marmi e quarziti mineralizzate di Cignana (Dal Piaz et al. 2015)
Description
- Description
- Rubato et al. 1998 p.270: The metabasalts are directly overlain by metapelites, marbles and Mn-bearing quartzites (at Sparrenflue, Mittaghorn, Lago di Cignana and Plan Maison), which form a thin cover of the oceanic crust (Dal Piaz et al. 1979; Bearth and Schwander 1981).
Age
- Age at top
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- Paleozoic
- Age at base
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- Paleozoic
- Dating Method
- Pré-permien?
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary