Wendenjoch-Formation

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Darstellung und Status

Index
hW
Farbe CMYK
(11%,0%,11%,29%)
Farbe RGB
R: 160 G: 180 B: 160
Rang
lithostratigraphische Formation
Gebrauch
Element ist in Gebrauch
Status
informeller Begriff

Nomenklatur

Deutsch
Wendenjoch-Formation
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Formation du Wendenjoch
Italiano
Formazione del Wendenjoch
English
Wendenjoch Formation
Herkunft des Namens

Tierberg (BE), östlich des Wendenjoches

Historische Varianten

Karbonschiefer, Gastern-Ferden Serie, Karbonzug vom Wendenjoch (Rohr 1926), Wendenkarbon (Labhart 1977), Wendenjoch Formation (Berger et al. 2017)

Beschreibung

Mächtigkeit
Bis 25 m

Alter

Alter Top
  • Late Pennsylvanian
Alter Basis
  • Late Pennsylvanian

Paläogeografie und Tektonik

Paläogeografie
Europäischer Kontinent
Tektonische Einheit (bzw. Überbegriff)

Referenzen

Neubearbeitung
Berger Alfons, Mercolli Ivan, Herwegh Marco, Gnos Edwin (2017) : Geological Map of the Aar Massif, Tavetsch and Gotthard Nappes. Geological Special Map 1:100'000, Explanatory Notes 129

p.48: The Wendenjoch Formation, previously called “Wendenkarbon” (LABHART 1977 and references therein), consists of a thin, few metres to tens of metres wide, discontinuous band of dark-coloured to black clastic sedimentary rocks of assumed Late Carboniferous age. It extends from the Jungfrau area in the west to the Urner Reusstal in the east. ROHR (1926) gave a detailed stratigraphic description (see ROHR 1926, Fig.4). Classical outcrops are in the area of Tierberg, located between Titlis and Grassen. The metasedimentary rocks of the Wendenjoch Formation are frequently strongly deformed; they separate the polycyclic metamorphic basement units of the Innertkirchen-Lauterbrunnen Zone in the northwest from that of the Erstfeld Zone in the southeast. Note that VON RAUMER et al.(1993) associated these rocks to the Erstfeld Gneiss Complex (Tab. 2). This particular tectonic position facilitates differentiation of the Wenden Zone from the Lötschental-Maderanertal Zone more to the south.

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