Mont Terri Thrust

Representation and status

Color RGB

R: 250 G: 50 B: 50

Rank

tectonic

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Mont-Terri-Überschiebung

Français

Chevauchement du Mont Terri

English

Mont Terri Thrust

Origin of the Name

Mont Terri (JU)

Historical Variants

Mont Terri Thrust (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• tectonic

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

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

p.26: In the Haute Ajoie region (easternmost part of the Central Jura), the Internal Folded Jura directly overlies the Haute-Saône Platform along the Mont Terri Thrust (Nussbaum et al. 2017).