Gilly-Schotter

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(0%,0%,0%,100%)

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Gilly-Schotter

Français

Gravier de Gilly

Italiano

Ghiaia di Gilly

English

Gilly Gravel

Origin of the Name

Gilly (VD)

Historical Variants

graviers de Gilly (Arn 1980), Dépôts fluvioglaciaires ou glaciolacustres sablo-graveleux anciens (Bl. Nyon), alluvions fluviatiles et fluvioglaciaires de Gilly = Graviers de Gilly (Scapozza et al. 2008)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Quaternary

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary