Quattervals-Decke

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Representation and status

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

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Quattervals-Decke
Français
nappe du Quattervals
Italiano
falda del Quattervals
English
Quattervals nappe
Origin of the Name

Piz Quattervals (GR)

Historical Variants

Quatervals-Element (Schmid 1973), Quattervals unit (Furrer et al. 1985), Quatervals-Einheit (Dössegger 1987), Quattervals-Teildecke

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.

An imbricated sheet of Upper Triassic carbonate rocks thrust to the SW or S over the Ortler sediments along the Trupchun-Braulio Line. The Quattervals nappe is part of the S-charl nappe affected by "back-thrusting". It is separated from the S-charl nappe by the complex fault (lag?) of the Gallo Line.

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