«unità del Moncucco»

Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
Rank
tectonic unit
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
obsolete term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Moncucco-Einheit»
Français
«unité du Moncucco»
Italiano
«unità del Moncucco»
English
«Moncucco unit»
Origin of the Name

Moncucco (Italia)

Historical Variants

Moncucco-Serie (Blumenthal 1952), Moncucco-Komplex = Moncucco-Gneise (Bearth 1956), Moncucco-Einheit (Bearth 1957, Laduron 1976, Merlin 1977), Moncucco-Gneissmasse (Wieland 1966), complexe du Camoghera-Moncucco (Trümpy 1970), sistema radicale Camughera-Moncucco = unità "radicali" di Camughera-Moncucco = unità continentale di Moncucco-Orselina (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Camughera-Moncucco unit (Keller et al. 2005), Moncucco unit (Steck 2008, Steck et al. 2013, Steck et al. 2015)

Description

Description

paragneisses and subordinate orthogneisses of supposed pre-Mesozoic age

Hierarchy and sequence

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

Definition
Steck Albrecht (2008) : Tectonics of the Simplon massif and Lepontine gneiss dome: deformation structures due to collision between the underthrusting European plate and the Adriatic indenter. Swiss J. Geosci. 101, 515-546

p.519: The Moncucco unit, within which we include the up to 400 m thick Moncucco peridotites, a sequence of metapelites, paragneisses, and amphibolites, an approximately 50 m wide fold hinge containing white siliceous marbles, outcropping at the Alpe Pradurino (Paleozoic or Mesozoic?; Bearth 1956b), and, in the core of the isoclinal Vanzone fold, the Moncucco porphyritic bi-mu-granite-gneiss, which is up to 700 m wide and has an age of 271 ± 4,8 Ma, (Rb-Sr, Biggogero et al. 1981).

  • Marmo dell'Alpe Pradurino

    Name Origin

    Alpe Pradurino (Italia), Valle d'Antrona

    Rank
    lithostratigraphic unit
    Status
    local name (informal)
    In short

    Kieseliger Marmor der Moncucco-Einheit (am Kontakt mit Paragneise und Peridotite der hangende Ruginenta-Decke).

  • Ortogneiss del Moncucco

    Name Origin

    Moncucco (Italia)

    Rank
    lithostratigraphic unit
    Status
    local name (informal)
    In short

    Granite porphyrique à deux micas affleurant dans le cœur du pli de Vanzone (unité du Moncucco = prolongation méridionale de la nappe du Monte Leone).

    Age
    Cisuralian (= Early Permian)
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