Grabfeld-Formation
Back to Southern GermanyRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,24%,22%,10%)
- Color RGB
- R: 230 G: 175 B: 180
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Grabfeld-Formation
- Français
- Formation du Grabfeld
- Italiano
- Formazione del Grabfeld
- English
- Grabfeld Formation
- Origin of the Name
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Grabfeld (Deuschland); siehe Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon Deutschland (LithoLex)
- Historical Variants
- Grabfeld-Folge (Gwinner 1980), Grabfeld-Gruppe (Duchrow 1984), Grabfeld-Formation (Etzold & Schweizer 2005, Geyer & Gwinner 2011, Nitsch 2015)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- das Grabfeld(gau)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Carnian
- Age at base
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- Late Ladinian