Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland
Back to OberpenninikumRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 239 G: 237 B: 235
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Oberpenninikum der Ostschweiz
- Français
- Pennique Supérieur de Suisse orientale
- Italiano
- Pennidico Superiore della Svizzera orientale
- English
- Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland
- Historical Variants
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Upper Penninic in Eastern Switzerland (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.77: The Upper Penninic subdomain of eastern Switzerland (Graubünden) is represented by oceanic rock associations: mostly sedimentary in the case of the Avers Nappe, largely magmatic in the Platta and Malenco-Forno-Lizun nappes and mainly with the character of a mélange zone for the Arosa Zone.