«Dolomitische Einheit» (der Camosci-Decke)
Back to Camosci NappeRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 180 B: 90
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Dolomitische Einheit» (der Camosci-Decke)
- Français
- «Unité dolomitique» (de la nappe de Camosci)
- Italiano
- «Unità dolomitica» (della falda di Camosci)
- English
- «Dolomitic unit» (of the Camosci nappe)
- Historical Variants
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Dolomitic unit = Triassic (Carrupt 2003)
Description
- Thickness
- 1-100 m (Carrupt 2003)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
- Units at roof
- Upper boundary
-
passage graduel ou tranché à l'"unité calcaire"
- Lower boundary
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chevauchement
Age
- Age at top
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- Triassic
- Age at base
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- Triassic
- Dating Method
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Analogies de faciès : Formations des Arandellys (Norien) et des Besoëns (Rhétien) (Carrupt 2003).
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
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2003) :
New stratigraphic, structural and geochemical data from the Val Formazza - Binntal area (Central Alps). Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 41, 103 p.
p.17: Dolomitic unit: a dolomitic marble that may contain a few phyllosilicates (up to 10%) outcrops above the basal discontinuous cornieule. The dolomitic marble is locally mineralised (sulphides). Up sequence the proportion of detrital quartz increases to reach 10%. This succession either continues with the progressive interfingering of a lustrous black micaschist or is capped by a quartzitic to arkosic metasandstone, which is locally conglomeratic. The latter is light yellowish and can locally record (e.g. in the "ghiacciao dei Camosci" area) as much as three superposed schistosities (Fig.3.1A). Its thickness varies from ~1m to ~100m, mainly due to alpine folding.
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