Unité Supérieure (Nappe du Mont Mary)
Back to Mt Mary NappeRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Obere Einheit (Mont-Mary-Decke)
- Français
- Unité Supérieure (Nappe du Mont Mary)
- Italiano
- Unità Superiore (Falda del Mont Mary)
- English
- Upper Unit (Mont Mary Nappe)
- Historical Variants
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Intermediate unit of the Mont Mary nappe (Canepa et al. 1990), Upper Unit (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.81: The Mont Mary Nappe also includes two crystalline basement units. The so-called Lower Unit mainly comprises pre-Alpine amphibolite-facies paragneisses and minor amphibolites and orthogneisses. The Upper Unit is similar to the Valpelline Unit of the Dent Blanche Nappe.