Schwarzwald-Massiv
Back to Black ForestRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Schwarzwald-Massiv
- Français
- massif de la Forêt Noire
- English
- Black Forest massif
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Black Forest uplift (Trümpy 1980)
Description
- Description
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mgm: biotite-granite and granophyre with xenoliths, as well as syenite, monzonite, hornblende granite, aplite and aplitic granite associated with hornfels within the contact metamorphic zone
mtm: leucocratic biotite-plagioclase gneiss, garnet-biotite-plagioclase-alkali feldspar gneiss, cordierite-biotite-plagioclase-alkali feldspar gneiss, hornblende-biotite-plagioclase gneiss, banded hornblende-alkali feldspar gneiss, metapelitic gneiss, calc-silicate rocks and migmatite
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Zwischen Rheintalgraben, Hochrhein und die Schwäbische Alb (nördlich bis eine Linie Karlsruhe - Pforzheim), sowie im Untergrund der Nordschweiz.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- North Alpine Foreland Basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)