Moosalp-Formation
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Moosalp-Formation
- Français
- Formation de la Moosalp
- Italiano
- Formazione della Moosalp
- English
- Moosalp Formation
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- Série de Moosalp (Thélin & Ayrton 1983, Thélin 1987), gneiss de Moosalp (Desmons & Ploquin 1989), Moosalp Formation (Genier et al. 2008), Moosalp Formation (Galster et al. 2010)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
-
- Early Permian
- Age at base
-
- Early Permian
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
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Briançonnais Terrane
:
microcontinent briançonnais
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
References
- Definition
-
2008) :
Lithostratigraphy and U-Pb zircon dating in the overturned limb of the Siviez-Mischabel nappe: a new key for Middle Penninic nappe geometry. Swiss J. Geosci. 101/2, 431–452
Green or white micaschists characterized by brown carbonate spots associated with white conglomeratic quartzites (Moosalp Formation, Early Permian).
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