Berisal-Decke
Back to Berisal nappeRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- nappe
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Berisal-Decke
- Français
- Nappe de Berisal
- Italiano
- Falda di Berisal
- English
- Berisal Nappe
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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cuillère du Bortelhorn (Argand 1911), complexe de Berisal (Bearth 1963), Berisal-Decke = Berisal-Komplex (Bearth 1973), Berisalcomplex (Frank 1979), Complexe du Berisal (Thélin & Ayrton 1983), synforme de Berisal (Jeanbourquin & Burri 1989), zone de Barisal [sic] (Burri et al. 1993), nappe de Berisal = zone de Berisal (Ackermann et al. 1991), lembo di Berisal (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Berisal unit (Thélin et al. 1993), Berisal-Zone (Burri et al. 1994), Berisal series (Carrupt 2003), Pontis-Berisal nappe (Steck 2008)
Description
- Description
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Complexe très replissé de micaschistes à grenat, amphibolites et gneiss à hornblende.
Hierarchy and sequence
- Upper boundary
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"Bündnerschiefer" (Sion-Courmayeur / Zone Houillère)
- Lower boundary
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Simplon-Störung
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Hillehorn/Punta Mottiscia, Bortelhorn/Punta del Rebbio, Furggubäumhorn/Punta d'Aurona, Wasenhorn/Punta Terrarossa, Simplonpass, Engiloch.
- Type area
- Simplongebiet (VS)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- polycyclic
- Metamorphic facies
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- amphibolite facies
- Note on metamorphism
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Métamorphisme alpin de faciès amphibolite