Müschauns-Dolomit
Back to Hauptdolomit-Gruppe (Ostalpin)Representation and status
- Index
- t5
- Color CMYK
- (0%,41%,100%,4%)
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 145 B: 0
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Müschauns-Dolomit
- Français
- Dolomie du Val Müschauns
- Italiano
- Dolomia della Val Müschauns
- English
- Müschauns Dolomite
- Origin of the Name
-
Val Müschauns (GR) - S-chanf
- Historical Variants
- Hauptdolomit = unternorisch (Hess 1953), membro inferiore dolomitico (Pozzi 1959), unternorischer Dolomit (Somm 1965), Münschauns-Dolomit [sic], Müschauns Dolomit (Furrer et al. 1985), unterer Dolomit = Müschauns-Dolomit (Dössegger 1987, Trümpy et al. 1997)
Description
- Thickness
- 300-400 m (Hess 1953), 350 m (Pozzi 1959), 400 m (Furrer et al. 1985), bis 500 m (Trümpy et al. 1997
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
- Quattervals-Fm.
- Lower boundary
- Fanez-Fm. (Raibl-Gr.)
Age
- Age at top
-
- Early Norian
- Age at base
-
- Early Norian
- Dating Method
-
Biostratigraphie mit Bivalven und Gastropoden (Furrer et al. 1985) ; vermutlich frühes Norien (Trümpy et al. 1997)
Geography
- Type area
- Engadiner Dolomiten (GR)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
- Conditions of formation
- "Shallow to intermediate subtidal." (Furrer et al. 1985)
References
- Definition
- (1985) : Field workshop on Triassic and Jurassic sediments in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland. Mitt. geol. Inst. ETH und Univ. Zürich (N.F.) 248, 81 S.