unité de Mauvoisin
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonically bounded lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Mauvoisin-Einheit
- Français
- unité de Mauvoisin
- Italiano
- unità di Mauvoisin
- English
- Mauvoisin unit
- Origin of the Name
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Lac de Mauvoisin (VS)
- Historical Variants
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Element von Mauvoisin = Mulde von Mauvoisin (Staub 1942b), unité de Mauvoisin (Burri et al. 1999), Unità di Mauvoisin = Mauvoisin unit (Dal Piaz et al. 2015)
Age
- Age at top
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- Cretaceous
- Age at base
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- Jurassic
References
- Definition
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(2015) :
Foglio 070 Monte Cervino. Note illustrative della carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000, foglio 070, 431 p.
Light quartz-micaceous marbles, reddish marbles with albite, chlorite and scarce epidote, and intercalations of quartzites, carbonate breccias, calcschists, quartzites and basal breccias; Boussine window, near the Mauvoisin lake (Switzerland), on the top of the Mont Fort nappe. (Dal Piaz et al. 2015)