Grès de Chandoline
Back to Carbonifère de la Zone HouillèreRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,15%,33%)
- Color RGB
- R: 170 G: 170 B: 145
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Chandoline-Sandstein
- Français
- Grès de Chandoline
- English
- Chandoline Sandstone
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- série inférieure = série des grès = série gréseuse inférieure (Lombard in: Lugeon et al. 1942), série gréseuse inférieure = série productive de Chandoline (Lombard 1949), Carbonifère productif de Bramois-Chandoline (Vallet 1950)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
-
- Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)
- Age at base
-
- Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Permo-Carboniferous
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary