Formazione a Bellerophon
Back to Werfen-FormationRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Bellerophon-Formation
- Français
- Formation à Bellerophon
- Italiano
- Formazione a Bellerophon
- English
- Bellerophon Formation
- Origin of the Name
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Prende il nome dai caratteristici gasteropodi del genere Bellerophon.
- Historical Variants
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Bellerophonkalk (Hoernes 1876a), Bellerophonschichten (Nöth 1929), Formazione a Bellerophon = Calcare a Bellephon (dal Piaz & Trevisan 1956)
Description
- Description
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unten noch stark terrigen, evaporitisch beeinflusst, teilweise auch bituminös ; transgressive Tendenz gegen oben
- Thickness
- 60 bis 150-600 m
Components
Fossil Content
- gastropods
- algae
- brachiopods
- bivalves
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Lopingian (= Late Permian)
- Age at base
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- Lopingian (= Late Permian)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Cadore, Val Badia, Val Gardena.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
- (1948) : Petrogenese im Grundgebirge des Südschwarzwaldes. Heidelberger Beitr. Mineral. Petrogr. 1, 121-202