Mandacher Störung

Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 250 G: 50 B: 50
Rank
tectonic
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Mandacher Störung
Français
chevauchement de Mandach
English
Mandach thrust
Origin of the Name

Mandach (AG)

Historical Variants

Mandacher Störung (Wildi 1983), Mandach Thrust (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • tectonic

References

Definition
Gouffon Yves (Editor) (2024) : Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern

p.21: Further east, north of the Mandach Thrust that is considered as the northern boundary of the Detached North Alpine Foreland (Malz et al. 2020; see § 3.2), (...)

p.25: The area east of Frick, known as the Bözberg Plateau, is verifiably detached for a few hundreds of meters to the north and is limited by the significant faisceaux-type frontal Mandach thrust (Malz et al. 2020).

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