Moosalp-Formation

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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

Moosalp (VS)

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
Briançonnais Terrane :

microcontinent briançonnais

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

References

Definition
Thélin Philippe (1987) : Nature originelles des gneiss oeillés de Randa (Nappe de Siviez-Mischabel, Valais). Mémoires de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 18/1, 75 pages
Definition
Genier Florian, Epard Jean-Luc, Bussy François, Magna Tomas (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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