Banc de la Grande Varappe

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Representation and status

Color RGB
R: 150 G: 190 B: 120
Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Grande-Varappe-Bank
Français
Banc de la Grande Varappe
Italiano
Strato della Grande Varappe
English
Grande Varappe Bed
Origin of the Name

Gorges de la Grande Varappe (Haute-Savoie, France), Salève

Historical Variants

calcaire-brèche zoogène à galets de plage (Joukowsky & Favre 1913), brèche à galets oolithiques cleus ou roux, roulés et aplatis, parfois perforés par des Mollusques lithophages (Charollais et al. 1988), niveau à galets de beach-rock remaniés (Deville 1990)

Description

Thickness
180 cm à la Grande Varappe, 80 cm à la Tine (Deville 1990)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Geography

Geographical extent
Salève.

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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