Lavagna-Formation
Back to Palombini-FormationRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (18%,0%,33%,22%)
- Color RGB
- R: 165 G: 200 B: 135
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- unknown status
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Lavagna-Formation
- Français
- Formation de Lavagna
- Italiano
- Formazione di Lavagna
- English
- Lavagna Formation
- Origin of the Name
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In Anlehnung an ähnliche Sedimente im Ligurischen Apennin (Val Lavagna) benannt.
- Historical Variants
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Formazione di Val Lavagna [sic] (Carta geol. Italia), «pré-flysch» (albo-aptien?) (Trümpy 1976), Scisti di Val Lavagna = Lavagna-Schiefer = Lavagna-Schiefer-Formation (Lüdin 1987), black siliceous shale (Mateeva et al. 2017)
Description
- Thickness
- Max. ca. 20 m am Hörnligrat (Lüdin 1987).
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Albian
- Age at base
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- Aptian
- Dating Method
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Albien bis Ende Kreide im Ligurischen Apennin (Decandi & Elter 1972).
Geography
- Type area
- Appennino ligure (Italia)
References
- Important Publications
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(1987) : Flysche und tektonische Melanges im südpenninisch/unterostalpinen Grenzbereich (Arosa-Zone ; Mittelbünden und Rätikon, Schweiz). Inauguraldissertation, Universität Basel(1988) : Mid- to early Late Cretaceous flysch and melange formations in the western part of the Eastern Alps: palaeotectonic implications. Jb. geol. Bundesanstalt (Wien) 131/2, 341-389