Oberpenninikum
Back to Upper PenninicRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic domain
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Oberpenninikum
- Français
- Pennique supérieur
- Italiano
- Pennidico superiore
- English
- Upper Penninic
- Historical Variants
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série pennique supérieure (Argand 1911b), Oberpenninikum (Staub 1946), haut-pennique (Ellenberger 1953), Hochpenninikum (Rutsch et al. 1966), Hochpenninische Decken (Trümpy 1974), falde Pennidiche superiori (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Obere Penninische Decken (Gruber et al. 2010), upper Pennine Alps (Ellis et al. 2016), Upper Penninic Subdomain (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Description
- Description
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Die lithostratigraphische Einheiten die die oberpenninischen Decken bilden stammen paläogeographisch aus dem Piemont-Ligurischen Ozean (Alpine Tethys).
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- Piemont Basin
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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In western Switzerland, the Upper Penninic subdomain contains mainly magmatic and sedimentary rock units of oceanic origin. Some thin continental margin sedimentary series and small continental crust slices are intercalated within these units. All of these units were driven into a subduction zone under the Salassic nappes, some exposed to high-pressure metamorphic conditions, others remaining under lower pressure conditions.
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Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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The Upper Penninic subdomain of eastern Switzerland (Graubünden) is represented by oceanic rock associations: mostly sedimentary in the case of the Avers Nappe, largely magmatic in the Platta and Malenco-Forno-Lizun nappes and mainly with the character of a mélange zone for the Arosa Zone.