Membre de Salvan
Back to Aig. Rouges MassifRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (11%,0%,17%,31%)
- Color RGB
- R: 155 G: 175 B: 145
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Salvan-Member
- Français
- Membre de Salvan
- Italiano
- Membro di Salvan
- English
- Salvan Member
- Origin of the Name
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Carrière de Salvan (VS)
- Historical Variants
- Carbonifère (Sublet 1962), Grès de Salvan, Stéphanien inférieur: Série lacustre détritique, Unit II (Niklaus & Wetzel 1996, Capuzzo & Wetzel 2003, Capuzzo et al. 2003)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Subordinate units
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Permian
- Age at base
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- Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Aiguilles Rouges
:
massif des Aiguilles Rouges
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Aiguilles Rouges
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- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Conditions of formation
- Deposition in an intramountain setting affected by active faulting and probably rapid uplift in the catchment areas. Mass flows and debris flows dominate the proximal areas of the alluvial fan systems close to the footwall slope, whereas the distal parts are characterised by braided distributary channels. (Bussy et al. 2001)
- Metamorphism
- monocyclic