Subalpine Slice Complex
Representation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 236 G: 234 B: 232
- Rank
- complex of tectonic slices
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Subalpiner-Schuppenkomplex
- Français
- Complexe d'écailles de la Molasse Subalpine
- Italiano
- Complesso di scaglia della Molassa Subalpina
- English
- Subalpine Slice Complex
- Historical Variants
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Subalpine Slice Complex (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.29: The Subalpine Slice Complex of the Molasse Basin defines the northwestern limit of the Alpine nappes over the whole width of the territory covered by the Tectonic Map of Switzerland. In the west, it gradually begins in France in the Annecy region, extends across Switzerland from Le Léman to south of the Bodensee, and continues into Austria and Germany over the eastern edge of the map (Ortner et al. 2015 and ref. therein).