Écaille de La Pattaz–La Holena

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 236 G: 234 B: 232
Rank
tectonic slice
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
valid

Nomenclature

Deutsch
La-Pattaz–La-Holena-Schuppe
Français
Écaille de La Pattaz–La Holena
Italiano
Scaglia della Pattaz–Holena
English
La Pattaz–La Holena Slice
Historical Variants

Pattaz-Schuppe = Schuppe von La Pattaz (Mornod 1945a, Habicht 1987), Ecaille de la Pattaz (Mornod 1949a), écaille de La Holena (Emmenegger 1962), Pattaz-Schuppe = Écaille de Pattaz [sic] + Écaille de la Holena (Habicht 1987)

Hierarchy and sequence

Subordinate units
Upper boundary

Contact tectonique: chevauché par les Couches de Villarvolard (= Formation de Cucloz).

Lower boundary

Contact tectonique: chevacuhé sur les Couches de Ramsera (= Molasse rouge).

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Lower Marine Molasse
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • tectonic

  • Grès de Vaulruz

    Name Origin

    Vaulruz (FR)

    Rank
    lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
    Status
    local name (informal)
    Valid term
    Horw-Sandstein_UMM
    Nomenclatorial Remarks
    <p>? Grès de Vuadens (Behmer 1912): au nord (Les Moret) = Vaulruz, au sud = Gurnigel !</p>
    In short

    Partie sommitale de la Molasse marine inférieure (UMM), constituée de grès micacé, glauconieux, pyriteux, gris bleuâtre, en assises, en dalles ou plaquettes.

    Age
    early Rupelian
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  • Marnes de Vaulruz

    Name Origin

    Vaulruz (FR)

    Rank
    lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
    Status
    local name (informal)
    Valid term
    Grisigen-Mergel
    Age
    early Rupelian
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