Sardona-Decke

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rank
nappe
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
valid

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Sardona-Decke
Français
nappe du Sardona
Italiano
falda del Sardona
English
Sardona nappe
Origin of the Name

Alp bzw. Piz Sardona (SG), Calfeisen(tal)

Historical Variants

Sardona unit (Lihou 1995), Sardona-Decke (den Brok et al. 2021)

Nomenclatorial Remarks

Piz Sardona >>> du Sardona, mais Alpe de Sardona

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at floor
Upper boundary

Lochsiten-Kalk, Subhelvetische Decken, Oberhelvetikum

Lower boundary

Blattengrat-Decke

Age

Age at top
  • middle Eocene
Age at base
  • Late Cretaceous

Palaenography and tectonic

Paleogeography
Ultrahelvetic Domain
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • tectonic
Conditions of formation

Deep marine flysch deposits of Late Cretaceous to mid Eocene age (Lihou 1993, 1995).

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