• Bardella-Roccabella-Schuppen

    Rank
    tectonic slice
    Status
    valid
    In short

    The Bardella-Roccabella Slices, located northwest of the Engadine Fault, are part of the Lower Austroalpine Err Nappe Complex. Their sedimentary series are detached from their former crystalline substrate.

    • Bardella-Schuppe

      Rank
      tectonic slice
      Status
      local name (informal)
      In short

      The Bardella Slice, located northwest of the Engadine Fault, is found in the footwall of the Julier Nappe and overthrusts the sedimentary cover of the Err Nappe, being pinched in along the multiply deformed synclinorium of the “Samedan Zone”, all the way between the Julierpass road and St. Moritz.

    • Roccabella-Schuppe

      Name Origin

      Roccabella (GR)

      Rank
      tectonic slice
      Status
      local name (informal)
      Valid term
      Chastelets-Schuppe
      In short

      The Roccabella Slice, located northwest of the Engadine Fault, is found in the immediate footwall of a klippe of the Err Nappe and is in direct contact with the Platta Nappe in the area east of Septimerpass.

      • Roccabella-Schiefer

        Name Origin

        Roccabella (GR)

        Rank
        lithostratigraphic unit
        Status
        junior synonym (disused)
        Valid term
        Emmat-Formation
        In short
        Grauer Kalk und schwarzer Tonschiefer mit kalkarenitischen Einschaltungen.
        Age
        Aptian
      • Roccabella-Granit

        Name Origin

        Nordhang der Roccabella (GR)

        Rank
        lithostratigraphic Formation
        Status
        informal term
        In short
        Turmalin führender, feinkörniger Granit.
        Age
        Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)
  • Chazforà-Formation

    Origin of the Name

    Hochebene Chazforà (GR), NW Piz Turettas

    Rank
    lithostratigraphic Formation
    Status
    informal term
    Age
    Late Permian - Early Triassic
    In short

    Obere Einheit der Val-Müstair-Gruppe («Münstertaler Verrucano»), bestehend aus massigen bis gebankten, meist graugrünen Konglomeraten, Sand- und Siltsteinen mit Komponenten aus permischen Vulkaniten (Ruina-Formation) und aus dem kristallinen Grundgebirge in verschiedenen Verhältnissen. Die Lithologien zeigen eindeutig fluviatile Sedimentationsgefüge und die Korngrösse wird von der Basis bis zur Obergrenze der Formation generell kleiner.

    • Tuors-Member

      Name Origin

      Val Tuors (GR), 4 km ENE Bergün

      Rank
      lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
      Status
      informal term
      Nomenclatorial Remarks
      <p>Ava da Tuors</p>
      In short

      Feinkörnige, gut gebankte Sandsteine, verzahnt mit dicken Konglomeratlagen mit eckigen Quarzadern, im oberen Teil der Chazforà-Fm. des Ducan- und Landwassergebiets.

      Age
      Early Triassic
    • Val-Püra-Member

      Name Origin

      Val Püra (GR), oberhalb Alp Chaschauna

      Rank
      lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
      Status
      local name (informal)
      In short
      Lokale Basalbrekzie der Chazforà-Fm. in der Region S-chanf und Federia.
      Age
      Late Permian
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