Val-Stgira-Marmor

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Representation and status

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Rank
lithostratigraphic unit
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Val-Stgira-Marmor
Français
Marbre du Val Stgira
Italiano
Marmo della Val Stgira
English
Val Stgira Marble
Origin of the Name

Val Stgira (GR), Lumnezia

Historical Variants

gryphäenführender Marmor der Val Stgiera (Kopp 1933), Serie B = Riff der Val Stgira (Kupferschmid 1977), Riff des Val Stgira (Wyss & Isler 2007), Val-Stgiera-Marmor

Description

Thickness
Bis 50 m mächtig (Wyss & Isler 2011).

Components

Fossil Content
  • pectinids

Pectiniden (Uhr in: Wyss & Isler 2007)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at floor
Lower boundary

Gryphäenmarmor > Basale Tonschiefer

Age

Age at top
  • Early Jurassic
Age at base
  • Early Jurassic

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Liassic of the Penninics
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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