Seconda Zona Dioritico-Kinzigitica
Back to Sesia zoneRepresentation and status
- Index
- 2DK / IIDK
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 210 B: 210
- Rank
- tectonically bounded lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Seconda Zona Dioritico-Kinzigitica
- Français
- Seconde Zone Dioritico-Kinzigitique
- Italiano
- Seconda Zona Dioritico-Kinzigitica
- English
- Second Dioritic-Kinzigitic zone
- Origin of the Name
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Ressemblance avec la "(Prima) Zona Diorito-Kinzigitica" (= Zona di Ivrea-Verbano).
- Historical Variants
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seconda zona dioritica (Gerlach) = zona Val Mastellone-Val Sesia (Bearth), seconde zone dioritique (Henny 1918), II Zona Diorito-Kinzigitica (Carraro et al. 1970, Minnigh 1977), II Zona Diorito-kinzigitica (Dal Piaz et al. 1971), Klippen of the Ivrea-Valpelline complex on the Sesia-Lanzo zone = IIDK (Dal Piaz et al. 1973), Seconda Zona Dioritico-Kinzigitica (Compagnoni et al. 1977), II Zona diorito kinzigitica (Stütnitz 1989), II Zona diorito kinzigitica = 2a Zona diorito-kinzigitica (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), IIDK nappe = Seconda Zona Diorito Kinzigitica (Babist et al. 2006), 2DK zone (Giuntoli & Engi 2016)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
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Adriatic passive continental margin
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southern continental margin / platform - Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Conditions of formation
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Unterkruste
- Metamorphism
- polycyclic
- Metamorphic facies
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- greenschist facies (epizone)
- granulite facies
- eclogite facies
- Note on metamorphism
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Variscan ; Alpine (HP-LT + greenschist)
References
- Definition
- 1900) : Ricerche petrografiche e geologiche sulla Valsesia. Memorie del Regio Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere 18, 219-390 (
- Definition
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2006) :
Precollisional, multistage exhumation of subducted continental crust: The Sesia Zone, western Alps. Tectonics 25
(3) the IIDK nappe, or ‘‘Seconda Zona Diorito Kinzigitica’’, is preserved within two large synforms in the northeastern part of the Sesia Zone, and to the southwest generally follows the contact of the Bard and Mombarone nappes [Minnigh, 1977]. The name of this nappe belies its close lithological affinity with pre-Alpine metasediments of the Ivrea Zone (so-called kinzigites, or ‘‘Prima Zona Diorito Kinzigitica’’ [Carraro et al., 1970; Dal Piaz et al., 1971; Isler and Zingg, 1974; Compagnoni et al., 1977]).
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Granuliti della Val Vogna
- Name Origin
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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Paragneiss sombres à faciès granulitique (kinzigite) de la zone de Sesia comportant de nombreux mobilisats pegmatoïdes, des marbres et des roches basiques variées. L'ensemble repose sur les «gneiss minuti» albitiques par l'intermédiaire de mylonites à glaucophane.