Sandstein-Formation (des Penninikums)

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic Formation

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

incorrect term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Sandstein-Formation (des Penninikums)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• Brekzien-Formation

Units at floor

• Tristel-Formation

Age

Age at top

• Albian

Age at base

• Aptian

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Middle Penninic

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Important Publications

Florineth Duri, Froitzheim Nikolaus (1994) : Transition from continental to oceanic basement in the Tasna nappe (Engadine window, Graubünden, Switzerland): evidence for Early Cretaceous opening of the Valais ocean. Schweiz. min. petrogr. Mitt. 74/3, 437–448