Nufenen-Knotenschiefer
Back to Gotthard nappeRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (5%,14%,0%,14%)
- Color RGB
- R: 210 G: 190 B: 220
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Nufenen-Knotenschiefer
- Français
- Schistes noduleux du Nufenen
- Italiano
- Schisto nodoso del Nufenen
- English
- Nufenen knobbly schist
- Origin of the Name
-
Nufenenstock (VS)/(TI), südlich Nufenenpass
- Historical Variants
- Nufenen-Scopi-Knotenschiefern (Alb. Heim 1891 S.303) ), Zoisitführende Schiefer = Zone des Nufenenstockes (Schmidt & Preiswerk 1908), obere Stufe (Eichenberger 1924), Knotenschiefer = oberer Lias (Oberholzer 1956), Serie der Nufenen-Knotenschiefer (Lüthy 1965, Liszkay 1965).
Description
- Description
- Knotenkalkschiefer mit Zoisitporphyroblasten, an der Basis mit dünnen, knotenarmen Kalken wechsellagernd.
- Thickness
- Ca. 100 m (Liszkay 1965).
Components
Mineral Content
- zoisite
Fossil Content
- belemnites
Age
- Age at top
-
- early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
- Age at base
-
- early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
Palaenography and tectonic
-
- Jurassic
- Liassic of the Helvetics
- Paleogeography
-
North Tethyan Shelf
:
marge continentale européenne
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- monocyclic
- Metamorphic facies
-
- low-grade metamorphism