Virgloria-Kalk

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

incorrect term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Virgloria-Kalk

Français

Calcaire de Virgloria

Italiano

Calcare di Virgloria

English

Virgloria Limestone

Origin of the Name

Virgloriapass = Amatschonjoch (Österreich), , N der Schesaplana im Vorarlbergischen Rätikon

Historical Variants

Virgloriakalk (Richthofen 1859), Virglorakalk = Calcaire de Virgloria (Theobald 1864), Virgloriakalk = Muschelkalk supérieur (GK100, Theobald 1873), Virglora-Kalk (Rothpletz 1883), Virglorien (Renevier 1874, de Lapparent 1893, Jeannet 1912, Ellenberger 1958 et 1963), Virgloria limestone = lower Alpine Muschelkalk

Description

Thickness

30-100 m

Hierarchy and sequence

Lower boundary

Streifenschiefer

Age

Age at top

• Anisian

Age at base

• Anisian

Geography

Geographical extent

Nördliche Kalkalpen.

Type area

Vorarlberg (Österreich)

Palaenography and tectonic

Paleogeography

Briançonnais Terrane :

microcontinent briançonnais

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Austroalpine
• Médianes rigides :
  nappe des Préalpes Médianes rigides

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

von Richthofen F. (1859) : Die Kalkalpen von Vorarlberg und Nord-Tirol. Jb. Geol. R. A. 10, 72-137

Definition

Hirsch Francis (1966) : Etude stratigraphique du Trias moyen de la région de l'Arlberg. Mitt. geol. Inst. ETH und Univ. Zürich (N.F.) 80