Ralligen-Sandstein
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Ralligen-Sandstein
- Français
- Grès de Ralligen
- Italiano
- Arenaria di Ralligen
- English
- Ralligen Sandstone
- Origin of the Name
-
Ralligen (BE)
- Historical Variants
-
Grès de Ralligen (Gilliéron 1885), Rallig-Sandstein = Ralliger Sandkalk = Merligerstein (Kaufmann 1886)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
Age
- Age at top
-
- Rupelian
- Age at base
-
- Rupelian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Lower Marine Molasse
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic