Unterengadiner Bündnerschiefer
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Unterengadiner Bündnerschiefer
- Français
- Bündnerschiefer de la fenêtre de la Basse Engadine
- Italiano
- Bündnerschiefer della finestra della Bassa Engiadina
- English
- Bündnerschiefer of the Lower Engadine window
- Historical Variants
-
Antirhätikonschiefer (Paulcke 1910), Basale Bündnerschiefer (Hammer 1914, Kläy 1957), Bündnerschiefer des Fensterinnern (Cadisch et al. 1968)
Description
- Thickness
- Mehrere tausend Meter.
Age
- Age at top
-
- Cretaceous
- Age at base
-
- Cretaceous
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Unterengadiner Fenster («Antirhätikon»).
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
References
- Important Publications
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(1904) : Les nappes des Alpes Orientales et la Synthèse des Alpes. Bull. Soc. géol. France 3, 711–765