Arenaria del Piano delle Creste
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- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,19%,16%)
- Color RGB
- R: 215 G: 215 B: 175
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Piano-delle-Creste-Sandstein
- Français
- Grès du Piano delle Creste
- Italiano
- Arenaria del Piano delle Creste
- English
- Piano delle Creste Sandstone
- Origin of the Name
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Rifugio del Piano delle Creste (TI), Val d'Antabia
- Historical Variants
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Grès du Piano delle Creste (Matasci 2009), Piano delle Creste sandstone (Matasci et al. 2011 p.264)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Lepontin: Val d'Antabia
- Type area
- Val d'Antabia (TI)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
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2011) :
The Teggiolo zone: a key to the Helvetic–Penninic connection (stratigraphy and tectonics in the Val Bavona, Ticino, Central Alps). Swiss J. Geosci. 104, 257–283
p.264: 3.4.2 The Piano delle Creste sandstone
Named after the Piano delle Creste rifugio in the Val Antabia, this formation is made of sandstone layers of variable thickness, grain size and composition. It often consists of decimeter-thick beds of more or less quartzitic sandstones alternating with more calcareous sandstones (up to 30% calcite, with small amounts of feldspar and mica). Composition and aspect are rather heterogeneous but these sandstones are always well bedded.
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