Faglia del Lago Maggiore
Representation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 50 B: 50
- Rank
- fault zone
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Lago-Maggiore-Störung
- Français
- Faille du Lago Maggiore
- Italiano
- Faglia del Lago Maggiore
- English
- Lago Maggiore Fault
- Origin of the Name
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Lago Maggiore
- Historical Variants
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Lago Maggiore Fault (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.107: The Lago Maggiore Fault was originally an Early Mesozoic rift fault that separated the Early Jurassic Monte Nudo Basin in the east from the Gozzano High in the west. The Lago Maggiore Fault extends largely below the lake, but in the south, it runs onshore between the Permian volcanics of the Ivrea-Ceneri Complex, overlain by Middle Triassic dolomites, and the Cretaceous – Cenozoic sediments of the Varesotto Imbricates. To the north, the Lago Maggiore Fault probably follows the lake towards the northeast, possibly reflecting the original listric geometry of the Mesozoic precursor fault.