Brunni-Granit

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Representation and status

Index
gamma-Br
Color CMYK
(0%,51%,49%,16%)
Color RGB
R: 215 G: 105 B: 110
Rank
lithostratigraphic Formation
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Brunni-Granit
Français
Granite de la Brunni
Italiano
Granito della Brunni
English
Brunni Granite
Origin of the Name

Alp Brunni (UR) bei Silenen am Brunnital

Historical Variants

Brunni-Granit (Gnos 1988, Labhart & Renner 2012, Gisler 2018), Brunni Granite (Berger et al. 2017)

Hierarchy and sequence

Age

Age at top
  • Middle Pennsylvanian
Age at base
  • Middle Pennsylvanian

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • plutonic
Metamorphism
monocyclic

References

Definition
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.41: The Brunni Granite is a homogeneous leucocratic granite with characteristic large crystals of allanite/epidote and locally K-feldspar megacrysts. It is affected by a weak foliation of Alpine age, which becomes more intense towards the south (SCHALTEGGER et al.1991). It forms an intrusive complex together with the Düssi Diorite (δD) showing abundant magma mixing and mingling structures (GNOS 1988, RIESEN 1991).

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