Marnes de Vaulruz
Back to Subalpine MolasseRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 215 G: 140 B: 120
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Vaulruz-Mergel
- Français
- Marnes de Vaulruz
- Italiano
- Marne di Vaulruz
- English
- Vaulruz Marl
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Marnes de Vaulruz (Mornod 1945a et 1949, Boegli 1972), Marno-micacé = Marnes de Vaulruz (Schroeder & Ducloz 1955), Marnes de Vaulruz - La Holena (Emmenegger 1962)
Description
- Thickness
- Quelques dizaines de mètres à 300 m environ (Boegli 1972).
Age
- Age at top
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- Rupelian
- Age at base
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- early Rupelian
Geography
- Type area
- Molasse subalpine de Suisse romande
Palaenography and tectonic
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- UMM-II
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
- 1972) : Géologie dela région au SE de Romont. Thèse no. 666, Université de Fribourg (