Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland
Back to Upper PenninicRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 239 G: 237 B: 235
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Oberpenninikum der Westschweiz
- Français
- Pennique Supérieur de Suisse occidentale
- Italiano
- Pennidico Superiore della Svizzera occidentale
- English
- Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland
- Historical Variants
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Upper Penninic of Eastern Switzerland (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
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p.68: The Upper Penninic subdomain of western Switzerland 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.