Mettauer Überschiebung
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
- Mettauer Überschiebung
- English
- Mettau Thrust
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Mettauer Überschiebung (Wildi 1983), Mettauer Überschiebungszone = Mettauer Störungszone (Zollinger 2005), Mettau-Linie, Mettau Thrust (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Kind of protolith
-
- tectonic
References
- Definition
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(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), the S-vergent Mettau Thrust is also subject of controversy (gravitational or tectonic structure, see discussion above; Wildi 1975, Laubscher 2003). This structure is thus regarded as belonging to the South German Platform.