«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
- Historical Variants
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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
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paragneisses and subordinate orthogneisses of supposed pre-Mesozoic age
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
References
- Definition
-
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).
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Marmo dell'Alpe Pradurino
- Name Origin
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Alpe Pradurino (Italia), Valle d'Antrona
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Kieseliger Marmor der Moncucco-Einheit (am Kontakt mit Paragneise und Peridotite der hangende Ruginenta-Decke).
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Ortogneiss del Moncucco
- Name Origin
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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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)