Matterhorn-Gabbro
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- Color CMYK
- (53%,0%,7%,41%)
- Color RGB
- R: 70 G: 150 B: 140
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Matterhorn-Gabbro
- Français
- Gabbro du Cervin
- Italiano
- Gabbro del Cervino
- English
- Matterhorn Gabbro
- Origin of the Name
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Basis des Westflankes des Matterhorn = Monte Cervino (VS)
- Historical Variants
- --- (Gerlach 1861 et 1869, Giodano 1869), péridotites et gabbros du Matterhorn (Brun 1898), euphotides (Argand 1908 et 1909), Eufotide tipica a diallaggio e labradorite della Testa del Leone (Bearth), Gabbros of the Matterhorn (Dal Piaz et al. 1977), Matterhorn Gabbros (Hellwig 2003), gabbros de la nappe de la Dent Blanche, Matterhorn-Cervino gabbro (Manzotti et al. 2017)
Age
- Age at top
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- Late Permian
- Age at base
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- Late Permian
- Dating Method
- 250 Ma
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- plutonic
- Metamorphism
- monocyclic
- Metamorphic facies
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- greenschist facies (epizone)