Peio-Linie

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
Peio-Linie
Français
Faille de Peio
Italiano
Falda di Peio
English
Pejo Fault
Origin of the Name

(Val di) Peio (Italia)

Historical Variants

Peio-Linie (Bockemühl & Pfister 1985), Peio line (Hoinkes & Thöni 1993), Pejo Fault (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Nomenclatorial Remarks

Pejo-Quarzite (Hammer ----) = Quarzphyllit der Catena Orobica und der Oetztaleralpen (in: Knoblauch & Reinhard 1939 S.79)

Description

Description

major tectonic line separating the Scarl-Campo basement from the Ulten basement

... zwischen Cima-Rovaia-Glimmerschiefer (Campo-Decke) im Norden und Tonale-Schiefer im Süden).

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

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

p.99: Further east, a second Late Cretaceous normal fault, the SE-dipping Pejo Normal Fault, accommodates top-E extension combined with a sinistral strike-slip component in the present-day map view (Werling 1992, Viola et al. 2003). The amount of displacement across the Pejo Normal Fault seems to be substantial since this fault juxtaposes the Tonale Nappe that lacks Alpine metamorphic overprint with the southernmost Campo Nappe Complex that was at least locally metamorphosed under upper greenschist-facies conditions during the Alpine cycle (Werling 1992).

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