Gneiss di Promontogno
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- Color RGB
- R: 225 G: 75 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Promontogno-Gneis
- Français
- Gneiss de Promontogno
- Italiano
- Gneiss di Promontogno
- English
- Promontogno Gneiss
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Plattige Glimmergneisse der Steinbrüche von Promontogno (Staub 1921), Plattengneise von Promontogno-Soglio (de Quervain 1969), Gneiss granitici leucocrati = gneiss di Tambo (Wenk 1992)
Age
- Age at top
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- Late Paleozoic
- Age at base
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- Late Paleozoic
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Val Bregaglia, Val Bondasca
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Variscan plutonic rocks of the Penninic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- plutonic