Stein-Schotter
Back to Tiefere DeckenschotterRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,7%,12%,18%)
- Color RGB
- R: 210 G: 195 B: 185
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Stein-Schotter
- Français
- Gravier de Stein
- English
- Stein Gravel
- Origin of the Name
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Stein (ZH), W Weiach
- Historical Variants
- Stein-Schotter (Graf 2009b, Preusser et al. 2011)
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Pleistocene
- Age at base
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- Early Pleistocene
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Zwischen Bodensee und Klettgau, Weiach.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Tiefere Deckenschotter
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
-
2011) :
Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 60/2-3, 282-305
p.286: A similar threefold subdivision of ‘Tiefere Deckenschotter’ is found along the River Rhine (Graf 1993), but a fourth gravel unit is found between Lake Constance and Klettgau as well as near Weiach (‘Stein-Schotter’) (Graf 2009b).
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