Ortler-Decke

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rank
nappe
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
valid

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Ortler-Decke
Français
Nappe de l'Ortler
Italiano
Falda dell'Ortler
English
Ortler Nappe
Origin of the Name

Ortler = Ortles (Italia)

Historical Variants

Ortlerdecke (Roesli 1927, Staub 1934), Ortler-Einheit (Dössegger 1987), Ortler Zone = Ortler-Sedimente (Spillmann 1993)

Description

Description

Couverture sédimentaire (de substitution) du socle cristallin du Campo.

Hierarchy and sequence

Upper boundary

Quattervals-Decke (via Trupchun-Braulio-Linie)

Lower boundary

Campo-Decke (via Zebrù-Linie)

Age

Age at top
  • Turonian
Age at base
  • Permian

Geography

Geographical extent
Engadiner Dolomiten (SE der Engadin-Störung).

References

Definition
Furrer Heinz (Ed.) (1985) : Field workshop on Triassic and Jurassic sediments in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland. Mitt. geol. Inst. ETH und Univ. Zürich (N.F.) 248, 81 S.

Permian to Turonian (especially Triassic to Lower Jurassic) sediments affected by internal thrusts and flat-lying normal faults (lags). The Ortler sediments are often considered as cover of the Campo crystallines; however, the contact between the two is usually tectonic ("substitution de couverture").

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