«Eisensandstein»
Representation and status
- Index
- ag
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- incorrect term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Eisensandstein»
- Français
- «Eisensandstein»
- Italiano
- «Eisensandstein»
- English
- «Eisensandstein»
- Origin of the Name
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Der Name Eisenstein stammt von den Einwohnern, die das Gestein von Alters her wegen der roten Anwitterung so bezeichneten (Stauffer 1920).
- Historical Variants
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Eisensandsteingruppe (Stauffer 1920), Eisensandstein (Günzler-Seiffert 1933, Furrer 1938), Facies des Eisensandsteins = Eisensandstein (Schindler 1959), Eisensandstein-Serie (Dollfus 1965)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- late Aalenian
- Age at base
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- late Aalenian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Dogger of the Helvetics
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary