Rosswald-Schuppe
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic slice
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Rosswald-Schuppe
- Français
- Écaille de Rosswald
- Italiano
- Scaglia di Rosswald
- English
- Rosswald Slice
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
-
Rosswald Slice (TK500, Gouffon et al. 2024)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Valaisan Basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
-
2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
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p.62: The Rosswald Slice is present only east of the Rhône-Simplon Fault. In the Brig area (upper Valais), the Roignais-Versoyen Slice forms the reverse limb of a large anticline, whereas the Rosswald Slice forms the normal, thrusting limb. Both are present for the first 20 km east of the Rhône-Simplon Fault; only the Rosswald Slice continues further east. This slice contains only the upper formation of the “Valaisan Flysch”. It borders the Lepontic units to the north between the Visp – Brig area and the Valle Leventina. Its eastern termination is not clear. Probst (1980) splits it in several units and connects one of them with the Grava Nappe, through the large synform east of Airolo where it would have been partly eroded.
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Formation de St-Christophe
- Name Origin
-
St-Christophe (VS), chapelle à l'ouest de Verbier
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Status
- informal term
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- <p>Constitue une "trilogie" typique avec les Formations des Marmontains et de l'Aroley sous-jacentes.</p>
- In short
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Formation de la la partie supérieure de la «trilogie valaisanne», constituée d'une séquence turbiditique monotone: alternance fine de calcaires gréseux micacés, rarement conglomératiques, et de calcschistes argilo-gréseux (flysch calcaire de type «Bündnerschiefer»).
- Age
- Late Cretaceous