unità di Bard

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rank

tectonic zone

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Bard-Einheit

Français

unité de Bard

Italiano

unità di Bard

English

Bard unit

Origin of the Name

Bard (Italia), Dora Baltea

Historical Variants

Bard nappe (Babist et al. 2006)

References

Definition

Babist J., Handy M. R., Konrad-Schmolke M., Hammerschmidt K. (2006) : Precollisional, multistage exhumation of subducted continental crust: The Sesia Zone, western Alps. Tectonics 25

(1) the Bard nappe making up the northwestern part of the Sesia Zone comprises mostly fine-grained gneiss (‘‘gneiss minuti’’ in the native literature by Gastaldi [1871] and Stella [1894] as cited by Compagnoni et al. [1977]);