Scisto di Baceno
Back to Verampio NappeRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,20%,30%,10%)
- Color RGB
- R: 230 G: 185 B: 160
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Baceno-Schiefer
- Français
- Schiste de Baceno
- Italiano
- Scisto di Baceno
- English
- Baceno Schists
- Origin of the Name
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Baceno (Italia), Valle Antigorio
- Historical Variants
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Bacenoschiefer = Schiefer von Baceno (Schmidt & Preiswerk 1908, Rothpletz 1914, Joos 1967), Bacenoschichten (Rothpletz 1912a), Baceno "schists" (Milnes 1965), schistes de Baceno inférieurs et supérieurs (Steck 1984), Baceno-Schiefer (Leu 1986), Métagrauwackes de Baceno (Escher et al. 1987), micascisti granatiferi di Baceno = micascisti di Baceno (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Baceno schists (Steck 2008), Paleozoic meta-greywackes = Baceno schists (Steck et al. 2013)
Description
- Description
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strongly deformed quarzo-feldspathic basement rocks (Milnes 1965), Paleozoic meta-graywackes (Steck et al. 2013) ; Granatphylliten mit helle oder graue Marmore
Hierarchy and sequence
- Upper boundary
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Intrudiert durch den Verampio-Granit.
Age
- Age at top
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- Paleozoic
- Age at base
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- Paleozoic
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Lepontin
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(1914) :
Beiträge zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik des Simplongebietes Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 66/1-2, 76-178
S.108