Oberer Altdorfer Sandstein

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

obsolete term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Oberer Altdorfer Sandstein

Français

Grès d'Altdorf supérieur

English

Upper Altdorf Sandstone

Origin of the Name

Altdorf (UR)

Historical Variants

obere Altdorfersandsteine (Brückner 1946), Grès d'Altdorf supérieurs (Vuagnat 1952), Altdorf-Sandstein (Obere Abteilung)

Palaenography and tectonic

• North-Helvetic Flysch

Paleogeography

North Helvetic Domain

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Lower Helvetic

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary