Toktri-Formation

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
(12%,0%,16%,16%)
Color RGB
R: 190 G: 215 B: 180
Rank
lithostratigraphic Formation
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Toktri-Formation
Français
Formation de Toktri
Italiano
Formazione di Toktri
English
Toktri Formation
Origin of the Name

Toktri = Tokteri (ZH)

Historical Variants

Toktri-Formation (Graf & Hofmann 2000, Graf 2009, Bl. Eglisau)

Description

Thickness
Wenige Meter mächtig.

Age

Age at top
  • Middle Pleistocene
Age at base
  • Middle Pleistocene

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Hochterrasse
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary

References

Important Publications
Lowick Sally E., Buechi Marius W., Gaar Dorian, Graf Hans R., Preusser Frank (2015) : Luminescence dating of Middle Pleistocene proglacial deposits from northern Switzerland: methodological aspects and stratigraphical conclusions. Boreas
Graf Hansruedi, Hofmann Franz (2000) : Zur Eiszeitgeologie des oberen Klettgau (Kanton Schaffhausen, Schweiz). Jb. Mitt. Oberrhein. Geol. Vereins 82, 279–315
Graf Hansruedi (2009) : Stratigraphie von Mittel- und Spätpleistozän in der Nordschweiz. Beitr. Geol. Karte Schweiz (N.F.) 168, 218 Seiten
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