Wolfacher-Schotter
Back to Iberig-SchotterkomplexRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,7%,12%,16%)
- Color RGB
- R: 215 G: 200 B: 190
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Wolfacher-Schotter
- Français
- Gravier de Wolfacher
- Italiano
- Ghiaia di Wolfacher
- English
- Wolfacher Gravel
- Origin of the Name
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Wolfacher = Wolfacker, bei Würenlingen (AG)
- Historical Variants
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Unterer Schotter (Graf 1993), Untere Iberigschotter, Wolfacher-Schotter (Bitterli-Dreher et al. 2007, Preusser et al. 2011)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Pleistocene
- Age at base
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- Early Pleistocene
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Hügel Iberig (AG).
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Tiefere Deckenschotter
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
-
2011) :
Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 60/2-3, 282-305
p.286: From gravel petrography it is concluded that the lower till and the lower gravel unit
(‘Wolfacher-Schotter’, ‘Wolfacher-Till’) are genetically related.
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