External Folded Jura
Representation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Externer Faltenjura
- Français
- Jura Plissé Externe
- Italiano
- Giura a Pieghe Esterno
- English
- External Folded Jura
- Origin of the Name
-
Partie externe (la plus éloignée des Alpes) du Jura plissé.
- Historical Variants
-
Jura des Plateaux et des Faisceaux acut., zone des Plateaux du Jura externe (Sommaruga 1995), Jura externe (Sommaruga 1997), External Folded Jura = Faisceaux and Plateaux (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
References
- Definition
-
(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.24: The most prominent features of the External Folded Jura are the largely undeformed or only slightly deformed tabular areas, called Plateaux, which are separated by narrow zones of intense deformation known as Faisceaux (e.g., Chauve et al. 1980).
-
Abgescherter Tafeljura
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
-
«Vorfaltenzone»
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- informal term
- In short
-
The «Vorfaltenzone» is a faisceaux-type fold belt of the External Folded Jura, partly hidden by the overthrust Internal Folded Jura.
-
zone des Avant-Monts
- Rank
- tectonic zone
- Status
- valid
- In short
-
Région monoclinale, localement plissée, de la partie frontale du Jura (zone préjurassienne) chevauchant le plateau de Haute-Saône (bordure oriental du Bassin de Paris) par l'intermédiaire de la faille de l'Ognon. Cette zone constitue l'ultime front compressif du Jura.
-
Faisceaux
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
-
The Faisceaux are narrow zones of intense deformation of the External Folded Jura. They separate largely undeformed or only slightly deformed tabular areas known as Plateaux.
-
Mandacher Störung
- Name Origin
- Rank
- tectonic
- Status
- informal term
- In short
-
The Mandach Thrust is considered as the northern boundary of the Detached North Alpine Foreland.
-
«Vorfaltenzone»
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- informal term
- In short
-
The «Vorfaltenzone» is a faisceaux-type fold belt of the External Folded Jura, partly hidden by the overthrust Internal Folded Jura.
-
Plateaux
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
-
The Plateaux are largely undeformed or only slightly deformed tabular areas of the External Folded Jura. They are separated by narrow zones of intense deformation known as Faisceaux.
-
Bözberg Plateau
- Name Origin
- Rank
- tectonic
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
-
The Bözberg Plateau is a small plateau of the External Folded Jura, detached for a few hundreds of meters to the north. It is limited to the north by the frontal Mandach Thrust and to the south by the «Vorfaltenzone» (partly hidden by the overthrust Internal Folded Jura).