zona di Pertusio
Back to Maggia NappeRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 200 G: 225 B: 250
- Rank
- tectonic zone
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Pertusio-Zone
- Français
- zone de Pertusio
- Italiano
- zona di Pertusio
- English
- Pertusio zone
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Pertusio-Zug (Preiswerk 1912), Pertusio zone (Steck et al. 2013)
Description
- Description
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Quarzite mit Marmorlagen und -schmitzen
Hierarchy and sequence
- Upper boundary
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Simano-Decke
- Lower boundary
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Maggia-Decke
Age
- Age at top
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- Mesozoic
- Age at base
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- Mesozoic
- Dating Method
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ehem. Trias?, eher Mittlerer und Oberer Jura ?
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Monte Zucchera - Peccia.
References
- Definition
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(2013) :
Tectonics of the Lepontine Alps : ductile thrusting and folding in the deepest tetonic levels of the Central Alps. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 106/3, 427-450
p.435: The Pertusio zone is a strongly deformed zone, mainly composed of some metres thick horizon of white quartzite of uncertain probably Triassic age with numerous up to some centimetres thick bands of calcite marble of a possible Upper Jurassic age that marks the limit between the Maggia and Simano nappes between Monte Zucchero to the south and Peccia to the north (Fig. 2; Keller et al. 1980).