Grès de Cologny

Representation and status

Color RGB

R: 200 G: 150 B: 100

Rank

lithostratigraphic Bed

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Cologny-Sandstein

Français

Grès de Cologny

Italiano

Arenaria di Cologny

English

Cologny Sandstone

Origin of the Name

Coteau de Cologny (GE)

Historical Variants

grès de Cologny, Pregny, Bernex, Satigny, Chouilly, ... (Necker 1841), Molasse rouge (Wildi et al. 2020)

Geography

Geographical extent

Région genevoise.

Point of interest

• Le Reposoir (GE)
  Site accessibility
  • Steinbruch, Tongrube
  Coordinates
  • (2500750 / 1121039)
  Note
  • <p>carrières sous-lacustres de Molasse</p>

Palaenography and tectonic

• Lower Freshwater Molasse

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic