Chartegg-Member
Back to Glarus Nappe ComplexRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,50%,63%,22%)
- Color RGB
- R: 200 G: 100 B: 75
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Chartegg-Member
- Français
- Membre de la Chartegg
- Italiano
- Membro della Chartegg
- English
- Chartegg Member
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Chartegg-Schiefer = Charteggschiefer (Ryf 1964), Chartegg-Tone, Chartegg Formation (Letsch et al. 2015)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Subordinate units
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Cisuralian (= Early Permian)
- Age at base
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- Cisuralian (= Early Permian)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
- (1965) : Geologische Untersuchungen im Murgtal Diss. Universität Zürich
- Definition
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(2015) :
The volcano-sedimentary evolution of a post-variscan intramontane basin in the Swiss Alps (Glarus Verrucano) as revealed by zircon U-Pb age dating and Hf isotope geochemistry. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau) 104, 123–145
p.133: In the area NE of the Sernftal (Chrauchtal and Murgtal), the Fuggstock Sernifite gradually fines upward and develops into silty shales of purple and green colour, often with characteristic quartz layers (Chartegg Formation, Ryf 1965).