Bachli-Giesenen-Störung

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 250 G: 50 B: 50

Rank

fault zone

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Bachli-Giesenen-Störung

Français

Faille de Bachli-Giesenen

English

Bachli-Giesenen Fault

Historical Variants

Bachli-Giesenen Fault (Hänni & Pfiffner 2001, Gouffon et al. 2024)

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Helvetic

Kind of protolith

• tectonic

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

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

p.40: From the Kander Valley, the Axen and Drusberg nappes represent the eastward continuation of the Wildhorn Nappe Complex. The transition is caused by a synsedimentary fault (Bachli-Giesenen Fault, Hänni & Pfiffner 2001), which led to the development in the east of a very thick marl sequence (earliest Cretaceous Palfris Formation) that acted as décollement layer during Alpine nappe stacking.