Rosswald-Schuppe

Darstellung und Status

Farbe CMYK

N/A

Farbe RGB

R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rang

tektonische Schuppe

Gebrauch

Element ist in Gebrauch

Status

lokaler Begriff (informell)

Nomenklatur

Deutsch

Rosswald-Schuppe

Français

Écaille de Rosswald

Italiano

Scaglia di Rosswald

English

Rosswald Slice

Herkunft des Namens

Rosswald (VS)

Historische Varianten

Rosswald Slice (TK500, Gouffon et al. 2024)

Hierarchie und Abfolge

Untergeordnete Einheiten

• Formation de St-Christophe

Paläogeografie und Tektonik

Paläogeografie

Valais-Ozean

Tektonische Einheit (bzw. Überbegriff)

• Sion-Courmayeur

Herkunftstyp

• tektonisch

Metamorphose

unmetamorph

Referenzen

Neubearbeitung

Gouffon Yves (Editor) (2024) : Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern

p.62: The Rosswald Slice is present only east of the Rhône-Simplon Fault. In the Brig area (upper Valais), the Roignais-Versoyen Slice forms the reverse limb of a large anticline, whereas the Rosswald Slice forms the normal, thrusting limb. Both are present for the first 20 km east of the Rhône-Simplon Fault; only the Rosswald Slice continues further east. This slice contains only the upper formation of the “Valaisan Flysch”. It borders the Lepontic units to the north between the Visp – Brig area and the Valle Leventina. Its eastern termination is not clear. Probst (1980) splits it in several units and connects one of them with the Grava Nappe, through the large synform east of Airolo where it would have been partly eroded.