Falda del Mortirolo
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
- Mortirolo-Linie
- Français
- Faille du Mortirolo
- Italiano
- Falda del Mortirolo
- English
- Mortirolo Fault
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Mortirolo-Linie (Bockemühl & Pfister 1985), Murtirolo Linie (Werling 1992, Spillmann 1993), Lunghin-Mortirolo movement zone (Mohn et al. 2011), Mortirolo Fault (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Description
- Description
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Antealpine Dislokation zwischen Pietra-Rossa-Formation im NOrden und Cima-Rovaia-Glimmerschiefer im Süden, die das ostalpine Kristallin in der Nähe der Tonale-Linie diskordant zur alpinen Struktur gliedert.
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.94: This [Masuccio Nappe] is located in the footwall of the Late Cretaceous Mortirolo Normal Fault (Meier 2003), a transtensional top-E directed extensional fault that became folded around the Pass d’Ur Antiform during Cenozoic folding. [...] East of Lago di Poschiavo, the Mortirolo Normal Fault, defining the top of the Masuccio Nappe, abuts the basal thrust of the Campo Nappe Complex that overlies the Lower Austroalpine Bernina Nappe.
p.99: Between Sondrio and Tirano, the Tonale Nappe represents the hangingwall of the Late Cretaceous Mortirolo Normal Fault (Meier 2003).