Poudingue de Dorénaz

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(11%,0%,17%,29%)

Color RGB

R: 160 G: 180 B: 150

Rank

lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Dorénaz-Konglomerat

Français

Poudingue de Dorénaz

Italiano

Conglomerato di Dorénaz

English

Dorénaz Conglomerate

Origin of the Name

Dorénaz (VS)

 

 

Historical Variants

Poudingue de Dorénaz (Lugeon 1937, Sublet 1962, Pilloud 1991), Unit I (Niklaus & Wetzel 1996, Capuzzo & Wetzel 2003, Capuzzo et al. 2003)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Formation de Vernayaz (Salvan-Dorénaz)

Units at roof

• Membre de Salvan

Age

Age at top

• Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)

Age at base

• Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)

Geography

Type area

versant W de la Montagne de Fully au-dessus de Dorénaz/Collonges

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Aiguilles Rouges :
  massif des Aiguilles Rouges

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Definition

Lugeon Maurice (1938) : Quelques faits nouveaux dans les Préalpes internes vaudoises (Pillon, Aigremont, Chamossaire). Eclogae geol. Helv. 31/1, 1-20

Material and varia