Idalp-Ophiolith
Back to Bürkelkopf-SchuppeRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (38%,0%,25%,37%)
- Color RGB
- R: 100 G: 160 B: 120
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Idalp-Ophiolith
- Français
- Ophiolite de l'Idalp
- Italiano
- Ofiolite dell'Idalp
- English
- Idalp Ophiolite
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Idalp Ophiolite (Höck & Koller 1987), --- (Fuchs & Oberhauser 1990), Ophiolith-Abfolge der Idalpe = Idalp-Ophiolith (Friebe 2007), Idalpe-Ophiolith (Gruber et al. 2010)
Description
- Description
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Gabbros, Ultramafitite, Kissenlaven, Grünschiefer, Bündnerschiefer (Jura–Kreide)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Unterengadiner Fenster: Flimspitz, Bürkelkopf.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Piemont Basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- ophiolitic
- Metamorphic facies
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- greenschist facies (epizone)
- blueschist facies
- Note on metamorphism
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Übergangsbereich der Hochdruck-Grünschiefer-Fazies zur Blauschiefer-Fazies (~300°C und 7–9 kbar ; Schuster et al. 2004, Höck et al. 2004).
References
- Definition
- (1987) : The Idalp Ophiolite (Lower Engadine Window, Eastern Alps) its petrology and geochemistry. Ofioliti 12, 179–192
- Definition
- (2007) : Vorarlberg. Geologie der Österreichischen Bundesländer, Geologische Bundesandstalt (Wien)