page_title: Aroley Formation
hierarchical_section_title: Aroley Formation
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Pierre Avoi von Sapinhaut aus gesehen
context_page_description: The Couches de l’Aroley are a sedimentary formation deposited during the Early Cretaceous. They consist of calcitic schists with dolomite clasts interbedded with finegrained conglomerates. The whole sequence is about 100 m thick.
  The Couches de l’Aroley are the lowest of the three post-rift sequences deposited in the Valais ocean. It overlies syn-rift sequences of the Brèches du Grand Fond Group.
  The Aroley Formation can be found within the following nappes:
  External Valais
  Moûtiers unit
  Roc de l'Enfer unit
  Petit St. Bernard unit
  Internal Valais
  Versoyen unit
  The type locality is the Massif de la Pierre Avoi, in Saxon, Valais, Switzerland. The formation is named after a "Plan Aroley" which lies below the Pierre Avoi. It was first described by Rudolf Trümpy 1952.
  The Couches de l’Aroley can be correlated with the Klus Formation and the Tristel Formation found in eastern Switzerland, the Engadin window and the Tauern window.
context_section_description: The Couches de l’Aroley (short: Aroley Formation) are a sedimentary formation deposited during the Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian). They consist of calcitic schists with dolomite clasts interbedded with finegrained conglomerates. The whole sequence is about 100 m thick.
  The Couches de l’Aroley are the lowest of the three post-rift sequences deposited in the Valais ocean. It overlies syn-rift sequences of the Brèches du Grand Fond Group.
  The Aroley Formation can be found within the following nappes:
  External Valais
  Moûtiers unit
  Roc de l'Enfer unit
  Petit St. Bernard unit
  Internal Valais
  Versoyen unit
  The type locality is the Massif de la Pierre Avoi, in Saxon, Valais, Switzerland. The formation is named after a "Plan Aroley" which lies below the Pierre Avoi. It was first described by Rudolf Trümpy 1952.
  The Couches de l’Aroley can be correlated with the Klus Formation and the Tristel Formation found in eastern Switzerland, the Engadin window and the Tauern window.
caption: Pierre Avoi is the type locality of the Aroley formation.
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