Granito di Mezzalama
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,59%,45%,14%)
- Color RGB
- R: 220 G: 90 B: 120
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Mezzalama-Granit
- Français
- Granite de Mezzalama
- Italiano
- Granito di Mezzalama
- English
- Mezzalama Granite
- Origin of the Name
-
Rifugio Mezzalama (Italia), Val de Véraz (dedicato al alpinista italiano Ottorino Mezzalama, 1886-1930)
- Historical Variants
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Mezzalama granite (Steck et al. 2015), Monte-Rosa-Granit = Mezzalama-Granit (Bl. Saas)
Age
- Age at top
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- Guadalupian (= Middle Permian)
- Age at base
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- Cisuralian (= Early Permian)
- Dating Method
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270 +/-4 Ma (U/Pb zircon ; Pawlig & Baumgartner 2001)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- SW-Teil des Monte-Rosa-Massivs.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- plutonic