Membro del Molino

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
(18%,26%,0%,24%)
Color RGB
R: 160 G: 145 B: 195
Rank
lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Molino-Member
Français
Membre du Molino
Italiano
Membro del Molino
English
Molino Member
Origin of the Name

Molino di Morbio Superiore (TI), nella Gole della Breggia (cf. carta Siegfried)

Historical Variants

Orizzonte Domeriano (Bonarelli 1894), hellgrauer Domeriano (Frauenfelder 1916), Schichten 2u (Renz 1920), Domérien p.p. (Senn 1924), Medolo with Fuciniceras cornacaldense (Bernoulli 1964), Domaro Limestone (Gaetani 1975), glimmerführendes Domeriano (Kälin & Trümpy 1977), Molino-Subformation (Wiedenmayer 1980 S.18), Medolo (Oppizzi & Spinedi 2007), Membro del Molino (Bernoulli et al. 2018)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit
Units at roof
Units at floor

Age

Age at top
  • early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
Note about top

Carixian (Late), Davoei-Z.

Age at base
  • early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
Note about base

Carixian (Middle), Ibex-Z.

Geography

Geographical extent
Bacino del Monte Nudo, Bacino del Monte Generoso.

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Liassic of the Southern Alps
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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