Forenirchel-Schotter
Back to Höhere DeckenschotterRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,16%,12%,16%)
- Color RGB
- R: 215 G: 180 B: 190
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Forenirchel-Schotter
- Français
- Gravier du Forenirchel
- English
- Forenirchel Gravel
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- Obere Irchelschotter (Graf 1993), Forenirchel-Schotter (Preuss et al. 2011)
Description
- Thickness
- Max. 18 m.
Age
- Age at top
-
- Middle Pleistocene
- Age at base
-
- Early Pleistocene
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Nur auf dem Buechemer-, Wilemer- und Forenirchel erhalten.
- Type area
- Hügel Irchel (ZH)
Palaenography and tectonic
-
- Höhere Deckenschotter
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
References
- Definition
-
2011) :
Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 60/2-3, 282-305
p. 285: The next unit of glaciofluvial gravel (‘Forenirchel-Schotter’) found on top of the overbank deposits represents the youngest sediments at Irchel.
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