Dolomitische Einheit (der Camosci-Decke)

Retour à nappe des Camosci

Représentation et statut

Couleur CMYK
(0%,0%,0%,100%)
Rang
Formation lithostratigraphique
Usage
Ce terme est en usage.
Status
terme incorrect (mais utilisé de manière informelle)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Dolomitische Einheit (der Camosci-Decke)
Français
Unité dolomitique (de la nappe de Camosci)
Italiano
Unità dolomitica (della falda di Camosci)
English
Dolomitic unit (of the Camosci nappe)
Variantes historiques
Dolomitic unit = Triassic (Carrupt 2003)

Description

Épaisseur
1-100 m (Carrupt 2003)

Hiérarchie et succession

Limite supérieure
passage graduel ou tranché à l'"unité calcaire"
Limite inférieure
chevauchement

Âge

Âge au sommet
  • Trias
Âge à la base
  • Trias
Méthode de datation
Analogies de faciès : Formations des Arandellys (Norien) et des Besoëns (Rhétien) (Carrupt 2003).

Références

Définition
Carrupt Elisabeth (2003) : New stratigraphic, structural and geochemical data from the Val Formazza - Binntal area (Central Alps). Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 41, 103 p.

p.17: Dolomitic unit: a dolomitic marble that may contain a few phyllosilicates (up to 10%) outcrops above the basal discontinuous cornieule. The dolomitic marble is locally mineralised (sulphides). Up sequence the proportion of detrital quartz increases to reach 10%. This succession either continues with the progressive interfingering of a lustrous black micaschist or is capped by a quartzitic to arkosic metasandstone, which is locally conglomeratic. The latter is light yellowish and can locally record (e.g. in the "ghiacciao dei Camosci" area) as much as three superposed schistosities (Fig.3.1A). Its thickness varies from ~1m to ~100m, mainly due to alpine folding.
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