Sulzfluh-Decke
Back to Sulzfluh nappeRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- nappe
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Sulzfluh-Decke
- Français
- Nappe de la Sulzfluh
- Italiano
- Falda della Sulzfluh
- English
- Sulzfluh Nappe
- Origin of the Name
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Gipfel der Sulzfluh (GR)
- Historical Variants
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Zone des Sulzfluhkalkes (Seidlitz ---), Sulzfluhteildecke (Cadisch et al. 1919, Cadisch 1922), Sulzfluhdecke (Staub 1934, Gees 1954), Sulzfluh Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024), von Seidlitz 1906, Tollmann 1970, Burger 1978, Biehler 1990, Nagel 2006
Description
- Description
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Sehr lückenhafte Abfolge (hauptsächlich "Malm" und Couches Rouges, wie bei den Mythen), mit diskontinuierlicher kristalliner Sohle.
Hierarchy and sequence
- Upper boundary
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tektonischer Kontakt
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Prättigau-Halbfenster zwischen Sulzfluh und Schesaplana.
- Type area
- Rätikon
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
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Briançonnais Terrane
:
microcontinent briançonnais
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Conditions of formation
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Mytilus
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.76: The Falknis and Sulzfluh nappes discontinuously overlie thick Lower Penninic “Bündnerschiefer” and flysch of the Tomül Nappe in the Prättigau Half-Window. They consist of a series of Early Jurassic to Paleogene sediments of Briançonnais origin. The tectonically lower Falknis Nappe is characterized by a more than 200 m thick Kimmeridgian – Tithonian Breccia overlain by Tithonian – Barremian marly limestones, Barremian – Aptian sandy limestones and fine grained breccias (Gruner 1981). The tectonically higher Sulzfluh Nappe differs from the Falknis Nappe in that only massive limestone instead of breccia represents the Late Jurassic sediments. In a few places, crystalline basement lenses occur at the base of the Sulzfluh Nappe. The mid-Cretaceous to Cenozoic quartzbearing sandstone and Couches Rouges are the same in both these nappes. The Falknis Nappe is particularly well developed in the area of the eponymous summit where it is subdivided into several slices. In places, one or the other of these two nappes becomes thinner; in these cases, only the thicker nappe is indicated on the map.