Gneiss de la Pointe Rousse
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Pointe-Rousse-Gneis
- Français
- Gneiss de la Pointe Rousse
- Italiano
- Gneiss della Punta Rossa
- English
- Pointe Rousse Gneiss
- Origin of the Name
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Punta Rossa = Pointe Rousse (Italia), NW Col du Petit St-Bernard
- Historical Variants
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Gneiss de la Pointe Rousse (Zulauf 1963), Punta Rossa granitoid (De Broucker et al. 2021)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Valaisan Basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)