Törbel-Gneis
Back to Upper Stalden NappeRepresentation and status
- Index
- GO-T
- Color RGB
- R: 175 G: 175 B: 150
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Törbel-Gneis
- Français
- Gneiss de Törbel
- Italiano
- Gneiss di Törbel
- English
- Törbel Gneiss
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Gneiss de Törbel (Thélin 1987, Sartori et al. 2006), Törbel Formation (Genier et al. 2008), Törbel Gneiss (Galster et al. 2010)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Late Paleozoic
- Age at base
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- Middle Paleozoic
- Dating Method
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Carboniferous? (Genier et al. 2008)
Geography
- Type area
- Umgebung von Embd (VS)
- Type locality
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Törbel (VS)
Site particularities- typische Fazies
- Strassenanschnitt / Bahnanschnitt
- (2631800 / 1120800)
- Genier et al. 2008
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Törbel (VS)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- polycyclic
References
- Definition
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2008) :
Lithostratigraphy and U-Pb zircon dating in the overturned limb of the Siviez-Mischabel nappe: a new key for Middle Penninic nappe geometry. Swiss J. Geosci. 101/2, 431–452
Fine-grained, greyish quartzite and graywacke with kerogen-rich horizons (Törbel Formation, presumed Carboniferous).
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