«Serie del (Passo) Salarioli»

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(10%,10%,0%,2%)

Color RGB

R: 225 G: 225 B: 250

Rank

tectonically bounded lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Salarioli-Serie»

Français

«Série du (Passo) Salarioli»

Italiano

«Serie del (Passo) Salarioli»

English

«Salarioli Series»

Origin of the Name

Passo Salarioli = Colle Selarioli (Italia)

Historical Variants

snyclinal III-IV = synclinal Turtmann-Selarioli = Arza-Selarioli (Argand 1911b), Salarioli-Mulde = Sedimentzug Colle del Pianino (Bognanco) - Passo d'Ogaggia - Passo Salarioli (Bearth 1939), Sedimentzug Passo Salarioli-Ogaggio-Colle del Pianino = Salarioli-Mulde (Bearth 1956), Salarioli unit (Steck 2008), Salarioli sedimentary cover (Steck et al. 2013), Salarioli Carboniferous-Triassic sediments = Salarioli series (Steck et al. 2015), Salarioli-Serie (Bl. Saas)

Nomenclatorial Remarks

Col Selarioli (Argand 1911b) ?

Description

Description

series of aligned lenses of marbles and quarzites of supposed Mesozoic age

Hierarchy and sequence

Subordinate units

• «Dolomit-Kalzitmarmor» der Salarioli-Serie
• «Phengit-Tafelquarzit» der Salarioli-Serie
• «Karbon-Schiefer» der Salarioli-Serie
• «Karbon-Konglomerat» der Salarioli-Serie

Age

Age at top

• Triassic

Age at base

• Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)

Geography

Geographical extent

Passo Salarioli, Vallone di Trivera, Prabernardo, Passo d'Ogaggia, Alpi Sogno, Colle del Pianino.

Palaenography and tectonic

Paleogeography

Valaisan Basin

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Ruginenta

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Definition

Bearth P. (1957) : Die Umbiegung von Vanzone (Val Anzasca). Eclogae geol. Helv., 50/1, 161-170

Definition

Steck Albrecht, Masson Henri, Robyr Martin (2015) : Tectonics of the Monte Rosa and surrounding nappes (Switzerland and Italy): Tertiary phases of subduction, thrusting and folding in the Pennine Alps. Swiss J. Geosc. 108/1, 3-34