Sardona-Decke
Back to Sardona nappeRepresentation 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
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Alp bzw. Piz Sardona (SG), Calfeisen(tal)
- Historical Variants
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Sardona unit (Lihou 1995), Sardona-Decke (den Brok et al. 2021)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
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Piz Sardona >>> du Sardona, mais Alpe de Sardona
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
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Lochsiten-Kalk, Subhelvetische Decken, Oberhelvetikum
- Lower boundary
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Blattengrat-Decke
Age
- Age at top
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- middle Eocene
- Age at base
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- Late Cretaceous
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Ultrahelvetic Domain
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Conditions of formation
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Deep marine flysch deposits of Late Cretaceous to mid Eocene age (Lihou 1993, 1995).