Écaille du Salève

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Representation and status

Color CMYK
n/a
Color RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rank
tectonic slice
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Salève-Schuppe
Français
Écaille du Salève
Italiano
Scaglia del Salève
English
Salève Slice
Historical Variants

structure chevauchante du mont Salève = chaînon du Salève (Charollais et al. 1988), chaînon du Salève (Charollais et al. 1998), Salève Mesozoic (Gouffon et al. 2024)

Age

Age at top
  • Early Cretaceous
Age at base
  • Late Jurassic

References

Definition
Gouffon Yves (Editor) (2024) : Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern

p.28: At the southwestern termination of the Foreland Plateau, between Genève and Annecy, the Molasse Basin is divided by the NNE–SSW oriented huge ridge of the Mont Salève. This mountain ridge is made up of a Mesozoic series similar to that of the nearby Internal Folded Jura and is overlain by a series of Molasse sediments. This sequence is separated from the more external Molasse by a thrust fault (Signer & Gorin 1995), which is similar to those intersecting the Jura fold-and-thrust belt. In contrast, it is assumed that the thrusts of the Subalpine Molasse slices are still rooted in the Cenozoic series. Therefore, the Salève Mesozoic is regarded as the most internal part of the Internal Folded Jura (Charollais et al. 2023).

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