• Falda di Suretta

    Origin of the Name

    Surettahorn (GR)

    Rank
    nappe
    Status
    valid
    In short

    The Suretta Nappe is a Middle Penninic tectonic unit of eastern Switzerland made up of a Paleozoic basement of para- and orthogneisses intruded by the Permian Rofna Porphyry Complex, which consists of granitoids and effusive-type magmatites. Its Permian – Mesozoic cover, in Briançonnais facies, is largely of Triassic age. Locally the Triassic is overlain by Jurassic breccias. This cover crops out as thin layers; in one instance it follows a Suretta-internal thrust fault, in other instances they are infolded into narrow synclines that were subsequently backfolded in the upper limb of the north facing Niemet-Beverin Backfold, whose axial trace runs across the Suretta Nappe.

    Nomenclatorial Remarks

    cf. Marquer et al. 1994, Marquer & Peucat 1994

    • Finestre di Lanzada

      Name Origin

      Lanzada (Valmalenco, Italia)

      Rank
      window
      Status
      informal term
      In short

      The Lanzada Fensters, in the Val Malenco, are two small tectonic windows dominated by sedimentary rocks typical for the Suretta Nappe and surrounded by the Malenco-Forno-Lizun Nappe. These windows also expose some small occurrences of metagabbro and ultramafics that are correlated with the Avers Nappe.

  • Starlera-Decke

    Origin of the Name

    Piz Starlera (GR)

    Rank
    nappe
    Status
    informal term
    Age
    Triassic
    In short

    Allochthoner Teil der Sedimentbedeckung der Tambo-Suretta-Decken.

  • Mesozoische Sedimentbedekcung der Suretta-Decke

    Rank
    composite cartographic unit
    Status
    informal term
  • kristallines Grundgebirge der Suretta-Decke

    Rank
    composite cartographic unit
    Status
    informal term
    • Roffna-Gneis

      Name Origin

      Rofla = Roffna-Schlucht (GR) bei Sufers (Hinterrheintal)

      Rank
      lithostratigraphic Formation
      Status
      informal term
      In short

      Variszischer porpyhrischer Metagranit (Alkalifeldspatgneis) der Suretta-Decke.

      Age
      Early Carboniferous (= Mississipian)
      • Andeer-Granit

        Name Origin

        Andeer (GR)

        Rank
        lithostratigraphic unit
        Status
        local name (informal)
        In short

        Lokal weniger deformierte Fazies des variszischen Granitporphyrs der Suretta-Decke von holokristallinporphyrischer Struktur und massiger Textur: grüner porphyrischer Granit bzw. grüner Serizitgneis.

        Age
        Early Carboniferous (= Mississipian)
    • Timun-Gneiskomplex

      Name Origin

      Piz Timun (GR)

      Rank
      lithostratigraphic Group
      Status
      informal term
      Nomenclatorial Remarks
      <p>Blanc 1965</p>
      In short

      Heterogener Altkristallin der Suretta- und Tambo-Decke: Chlorit-Serizit-Schiefer, schieferiger Gneis, grauer Augengneis, Amphibolit, usw.

      • Val-di-Lei-Eklogit

        Name Origin

        Punt di Val di Lei (GR)

        Rank
        lithostratigraphic unit
        Status
        local name (informal)
        Nomenclatorial Remarks
        <p>eclogite» of Val di Lei. Staub 1926, Schärer 1974</p>
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