Rütenen-Konglomerat
Back to Stad-FormationRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,12%,52%,2%)
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 220 B: 120
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Rütenen-Konglomerat
- Français
- Conglomérat du Rütenen
- Italiano
- Conglomerato del Rütenen
- English
- Rütenen Conglomerate
- Origin of the Name
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Rütenen (NW), östlich Beckenried
- Historical Variants
- --- (Brückner 1945, Herb 1988), Konglomerat von Rütenen (Bayer 1982), conglomérat de Rütenen (Kindler 1990), Rütenen Conglomerate (Menkveld-Gfeller et al. 2016)
Age
- Age at top
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- Eocene
- Age at base
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- Eocene
- Dating Method
- P15 (Herb 1988)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Bei Rütenen/Beckenried.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Tertiary
- Paleogeography
- European continental plate
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
- (1946) : Neue Konglomeratfunde in den Schiefermergeln des jüngeren helvetischen Eocaens der Zentral- und Ostaschweiz Eclogae geol. Helv. 38/2, 315-328
- Definition
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(2016) :
Lithostratigraphic units of the Helvetic Palaeogene: review, new definition, new classification. Swiss J. Geosc. 109/2, 171-199
p.187: Massive, coarse-grained and poorly sorted conglomerate with marly matrix. Pebbles originated from the underlying sediments of Late Cretaceous to Palaeogene age (Buxtorf 1916; Herb 1988). Occurrence near Rütenen/Beckenried.