Schlinig-Linie

Representation and status

Color CMYK
(0%,80%,80%,2%)
Color RGB
R: 250 G: 50 B: 50
Rank
tectonic
Validity
Unit is in Use

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Schlinig-Linie
Français
ligne de Schlinig
Italiano
linea di Slingia
English
Schlinig line
Origin of the Name

Schlinig = Slingia (Italia), Südtirol / Alto Adige

Historical Variants

Schlining-Überschiebung (Medwenitsch 1962), Schlinig-Linie (Schmid 1973), --- (Schmid & Haas 1989), Schlinig-Überschiebung = Schlinig-Linie (Stutz & Walter 1983), Schlinig line = Schlinig thrust (Hoinkes & Thöni 1993), Schlinig fault (Froitzheim et al. 1997), Schlinig Thrust (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Description

Description

Basale Überschiebeung der Ötztal-Decke auf die S-charl-Sesvenna-Sesvenna; major tectonic line separating the Ötztal-Stubai basement from the (Sesvenna-)Scarl-Campo basement

Geography

Geographical extent
Valle di Slìngia, Munt Russenna (hintere Val d'Assa), Nauders.

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.85: In the area of the Tectonic Map of Switzerland, besides the thrust between the Lower and Upper Austroalpine nappes, the Schlinig Thrust also represents an important tectonic contact, located within the Upper Austroalpine subdomain, that emplaced the tectonically higher Ötztal Nappe Complex over the underlying S-charl-Sesvenna Nappe and the Campo Nappe Complex. This major WNW-directed thrust is located near the Switzerland-Austria-Italy triple point and can be followed as an intra-basement shear zone all along the Etsch Valley (Vinschgau) eastwards for some 40 km (Schmid & Haas 1989). East of the area of the map, a high-pressure nappe complex is situated at the level of this contact (Koralpe-Wölz Nappe Complex; Schmid et al. 2004, Schuster 2015). The other tectonic boundaries between the Upper Austroalpine nappes in the footwall of the Ötztal Nappe are of relatively minor importance. The boundary between the sedimentary Lechtal Nappe of the Northern Calcareous Alps and the basement of the southerly adjacent Silvretta Nappe represents a heavily tectonized stratigraphic contact (Rockenschaub 1990, Nagel 2006). The Tonale Fault, part of the Periadriatic Fault System, separates the Austroalpine units in the north from the South Alpine units in the south.

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