Milano Belt
Back to Milan BeltRepresentation and status
- Index
- Mi
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Überschiebungsgürtel von Mailand
- Français
- Ceinture de chevauchement de Milan
- Italiano
- Milano Belt
- English
- Milan Belt
- Origin of the Name
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Milano (Italia)
- Historical Variants
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Milan belt (Laubscher 1985), Lombardic Nappe (Schönborn 1992), Milano Belt (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Age
- Age at top
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- late Miocene
- Age at base
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- middle Miocene
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Po Plain.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.103: The southernmost and lowest thrust system is called the Milan Belt; its basement ramps are hidden below the Po Plain like most of the deformed sedimentary cover (Fantoni et al. 1999). The Milan Belt consists of thrust imbricates, locally inverting Mesozoic high-angle faults, developed as a frontal accretion of the western South Alpine domain during the Miocene. East of Lago di Garda, units equivalent to the Milan Belt crop out extensively along the External Giudicarie Zone.