Pfäfers-Formation

Representation and status

Color RGB

R: 250 G: 240 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic Formation

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

provisional proposal

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Pfäfers-Formation

Français

Formation de Pfäfers

Italiano

Formazione di Pfäfers

English

Pfäfers Formation

Origin of the Name

Pfäfers(SG)

Historical Variants

Flyschartige Wechselfolge von Mergel, Kieselkalk, Sandkalk und Glimmersandstein = Pfäfers-Formation (Bl. Vättis)

Age

Age at top

• Eocene

Age at base

• Maastrichtian

Palaenography and tectonic

• Flyschs

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Bad-Ragaz

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic