Membro del Molino
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (18%,26%,0%,24%)
- Color RGB
- R: 160 G: 145 B: 195
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Molino-Member
- Français
- Membre du Molino
- Italiano
- Membro del Molino
- English
- Molino Member
- Origin of the Name
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Molino di Morbio Superiore (TI), nella Gole della Breggia (cf. carta Siegfried)
- Historical Variants
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Orizzonte Domeriano (Bonarelli 1894), hellgrauer Domeriano (Frauenfelder 1916), Schichten 2u (Renz 1920), Domérien p.p. (Senn 1924), Medolo with Fuciniceras cornacaldense (Bernoulli 1964), Domaro Limestone (Gaetani 1975), glimmerführendes Domeriano (Kälin & Trümpy 1977), Molino-Subformation (Wiedenmayer 1980 S.18), Medolo (Oppizzi & Spinedi 2007), Membro del Molino (Bernoulli et al. 2018)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
- Note about top
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Carixian (Late), Davoei-Z.
- Age at base
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- early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
- Note about base
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Carixian (Middle), Ibex-Z.
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Bacino del Monte Nudo, Bacino del Monte Generoso.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Liassic of the Southern Alps
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary