Formation des Tuileries

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Representation and status

Index
qT
Color CMYK
(17%,0%,25%,6%)
Color RGB
R: 200 G: 240 B: 180
Rank
lithostratigraphic Formation
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Tuileries-Formation
Français
Formation des Tuileries
Italiano
Formazione delle Tuileries
English
Tuileries Formation
Origin of the Name

Les Tuileries (VD), SW Grandson

Historical Variants
--- (Jayet & Portmann 1960, Jayet & Portmann 1966), gisement des Tuileries (Portmann 1974), Formation des Tuileries = Alluvions fluviatiles et fluvioglaciaires (Rigassi et al. 2006)

Age

Age at top
  • Middle Pleistocene
Age at base
  • Middle Pleistocene

Geography

Type area
région de Grandson (VD)

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Hochterrasse
  • Gondiswil
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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