St-Cergue Fault Zone
Representation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 50 B: 50
- Rank
- fault zone
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- St-Cergue-Störung
- Français
- Zone de failles de St-Cergue
- English
- St-Cergue Fault Zone
- Origin of the Name
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Saint-Cergue (VD) [non: Saint-Cergues (Haute-Savoie)]
- Historical Variants
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St-Cergues Fault Zone [sic] (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
:
Juragebirge
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Jura
:
- 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.26: Important NW–SE oriented strike-slip faults, such as the La Sarraz-Mormont or St-Cergues fault zones, develop in a conjugate manner to the N–S faults and show a dextral displacement.