Formazione dei Rossi

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(0%,0%,14%,31%)

Color RGB

R: 175 G: 175 B: 150

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Rossi-Formation

Français

Formation des Rossi

Italiano

Formazione dei Rossi

English

Rossi Formation

Origin of the Name

I Rossi (GR)

Historical Variants

Tiefere Fedoz-Serie (Staub 1946), Andalusite-garnet biotitic schists (Gyr 1967, Ferrario & Montrasio 1976), Rossi-Serie (Spillmann 1993), Rossi-Formation (Spillmann & Trommsdorff 2007)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• Quarziti del Muretto

Age

Age at top

• Cretaceous

Age at base

• Late Jurassic

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Malenco-Forno-Lizun

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary