Tschep-Schuppe
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic slice
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Tschep-Schuppe
- Français
- Écaille du Tschep
- Italiano
- Scaglia del Tschep
- English
- Tschep Slice
- Origin of the Name
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Massiv des Tschep (GR)
- Historical Variants
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Tschepdecke (Pfiffner 1972), Tschep Nappe (von Däniken & Frehner 2017), Tschep-Decke, Tschep-Schuppe (den Brok et al. 2021, Bl. Vättis), Tschep Slice (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
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(Parautochthon des Aar-Massivs)
Description
- Description
-
allochthone Sedimentbedeckung des Aar-Massivs
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
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Glarus Thrust
Age
- Age at top
-
- Early Cretaceous
- Age at base
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- Late Carboniferous (= Pennsylvanian)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- European continental plate
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- tectonic
References
- Definition
-
(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.34: At the northeastern end of the Aar Massif, the crystalline basement dips to the NE below its sedimentary cover; it reappears as a small occurrence in the Vättis Window about 30 km further northeast. In this region, a late out-of-sequence thrusting involves the basement and cover of the Aar Massif as well as the overlying Blattengrat and Sardona nappes. The displacement along each of these thrust faults is approximately 1– 2 km (Fig. 5). These thrusts define post-nappe units; from bottom to top: the Kaminspitz, Stelli, Marchegghorn, Orglen, Calanda, Mirutta and Tschep slices (see Pfiffner 1978 for a review).