«Grand Filon»
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,17%,34%,43%)
- Color RGB
- R: 150 G: 125 B: 100
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Grand Filon»
- Français
- «Grand Filon»
- Italiano
- «Grand Filon»
- English
- «Grand Filon»
- Historical Variants
-
filon supérieur = filon principal (de Razoumowsky 1789 p.50), grande couche (Zollikofer 1853), grand filon (de la Harpe 1856b, Gaudin 1856), Grand Filon (Ritter 1925, Bersier 1945, Weidmann 1982), Grand Filon de Paudex-Belmont (Habicht 1987)
Description
- Thickness
- 24 cm (Zollikofer 1853), 10 cm en moyenne (Ritter 1925), 10-18 cm (Weidmann 1982)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
Age
- Age at top
-
- late Chattian
- Age at base
-
- late Chattian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Paudex-Belmont (VD).
Palaenography and tectonic
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- USM-I
- Paleogeography
- North Alpine Foreland Basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary