(Internal) Lower Penninic of Western Switzerland
Back to UnterpenninikumRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 239 G: 237 B: 235
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- (Internes) Unterpenninikum der Westschweiz
- Français
- Pennique Inférieur (interne) de Suisse occidentale
- Italiano
- Pennidico Inferiore (interno) della Svizzera occidentale
- English
- (Internal) Lower Penninic of Western Switzerland
- Historical Variants
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Lower Penninic in Western Switzerland (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.61: In the area described here [i.e. Western Switzerland], the Lower Penninic is only represented by the Sion-Courmayeur Nappe, which extends along the entire front of the Penninic domain. As described in the introduction to Chapter 6, the Lower Penninic units were formed in the subduction zone below the Middle Penninic units.