Falda del Simano

Representation and status

Historical Variants: Simanoteildecke = Simano-Decke (Heydweiller 1918), Simanodecke (Bosshard 1925, Kündig 1926a, Staub 1934), Ricoprimento Simano-Verzasca (Casasopra 1939b), Falda Simano (Godenzi 1963), Ricoprimento Simano = complesso Simano (Bianconi 1971), nappe du Simano (Mayerat Demarne 1994), Simano Nappe (Rütti et al. 2005), Simano nappe (Steck et al. 2013), unità del Simano (Schenker, Bl. Osogna)

Subordinate units

Upper boundary: Maggia-Decke
Lower boundary: Lucomagno-Leventina-Decke > Leventina-Gneis (ursp. intrusives Kontakt ; Rütti et al. 2005) bzw. Maggia-Decke

Type locality

Paleogeography

Northern Tethyan Margin :
Paleo-European Margin

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

Kind of protolith

Metamorphism

polycyclic

Metamorphic facies

Note on metamorphism

Kaledonisch + Variszisch + Alpin

Definition: Steck Albrecht, Della Torre F., Keller Franz, Pfeifer Hans-Rudolf, Hunziker Johannes, Masson Henri (2013) : Tectonics of the Lepontine Alps : ductile thrusting and folding in the deepest tetonic levels of the Central Alps. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 106/3, 427-450

p.431: On their tectonic map of the Simano nappe, Keller et al. (1980) distinguished a northern Campo Tencia unit composed of staurolite–kyanite–garnet micaschist and biotite-plagioclase paragneiss (meta-graywacke), the latter intruded by the Ganna granite gneiss, from a southern zone, dominated by a granitic two mica augengneiss, the 300 Ma old Verzasca gneiss (Ko¨ppel et al. 1981). A discontinuous zone of amphibolites follows the contact of the two units. The contact of the Campo Tencia and Verzasca units resemble a shear zone (Keller 1968).