Steigbach-Formation
Back to Subalpine MolasseRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 195 G: 155 B: 110
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Steigbach-Formation
- Français
- Formation du Steigbach
- Italiano
- Formazione del Steigbach
- English
- Steigbach Formation
- Origin of the Name
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Steigbach (Österreich), bei Immenstadt
- Historical Variants
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Steigbachschichten (Füchtbauer 1964), Steigbach-Schichten, Steigbach Beds, Steigbach-Formation = Steigbachschichten = Oberchatt (Friebe et al. 2007)
Description
- Thickness
- 1100 m in der Salmaser Schuppe; ca. 1300 m in der Horn-Schuppe
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Chattian
- Age at base
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- Chattian
- Dating Method
-
Egerian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Gäbris, Kronberg.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Lower Freshwater Molasse
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic