Marmo dell'Alpe Pradurino
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- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Color RGB
- R: 200 G: 225 B: 250
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Alpe-Pradurino-Marmor
- Français
- Marbre de l'Alpe Pradurino
- Italiano
- Marmo dell'Alpe Pradurino
- English
- Alpe Pradurino Marble
- Origin of the Name
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Alpe Pradurino (Italia), Valle d'Antrona
- Historical Variants
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siliceous marbles of Alpe Pradurino (Steck 2008), kieselige Marmore auf der Alpe Pradurino (Bl. Saas)
Description
- Thickness
- Ca. 50 m bei der Alpe Pradurino
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
References
- Definition
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(2008) :
Tectonics of the Simplon massif and Lepontine gneiss dome: deformation structures due to collision between the underthrusting European plate and the Adriatic indenter. Swiss J. Geosci. 101, 515-546
p.519: an approximately 50 m wide fold hinge containing white siliceous marbles,
outcropping at the Alpe Pradurino (Paleozoic or Mesozoic?; Bearth 1956b) [...] It is also possible that the siliceous marbles of Alpe Pradurino represent a relict of Mesozoic sediments marking the boundary of these two tectonic units, as proposed on the geological and tectonic maps of Switzerland, 1: 500'000 of the Federal Office for Water
and Geology (2005).