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Table 1 Comparative table showing the name of the stratigraphic units defined in this work, the translation in French, and the names used in previous papers

From: Stratigraphic revision and reconstruction of the deep-sea fan of the Voirons Flysch (Voirons Nappe, Chablais Prealps)

This paper

French correspondence

Previous attribution

Comments

Voirons Flysch

Flysch des Voirons

Voirons Flysch

 

Voirons Sandstone

Grès des Voirons

Voirons Sandstone

New internal subdivision

Bons Mb.

Mb. de Bons

Voirons Sandstone

New unit

Allinges Mb.

Mb. des Allinges

Vouan Conglomerate (Olive et al. 1987) or Voirons Sandstone (Vial et al. 1989)

Attribution fixed

Signal Mb.

Mb. du Signal

Voirons Sandstone

New unit

Vouan Conglomerate

Conglomérat du Vouan

Vouan Conglomerate

New boundary defined

Boëge Marl

Marne de Boëge

Boëge Marl or Saxel Marl

Initially described as a member (van Stuijvenberg and Jan du Chêne 1980)

Bruant Sandstone

Grès du Bruant

mélange (Kerrien et al. 1998) or Priabonian sandstone (Charollais et al. 1998)

Uncertain attribution: stratigraphic unit or Voirons Sandstone tectonic slice

Fenalet Sandstone

Grès du Fenalet

Ultrahelvetic flysch (Badoux 1996)

Attribution fixed but remains not laterally constrain in the stratigraphy of the Voirons Flysch