Visperterminen-Schuppe
Back to Visperterminen SliceRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic zone
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Visperterminen-Schuppe
- Français
- Écaille de Visperterminen
- Italiano
- Scaglia di Visperterminen
- English
- Visperterminen Slice
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
-
digitation de Visperterbinen (Argand 1911), zone de Visperterminen (Bearth 1963), unité de Visperterminen (Burri 1979), Lappen von Visperterminen (Bolli et al. 1980), Visperterminen Slice (TK500, Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
-
Briançonnais Terrane
:
microcontinent briançonnais
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- tectonic
References
- Definition
-
(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.63: Between Visp and the Simplonpass, two graphitic schist and paragneiss slices are attributed to the Zone Houillère by analogy with the rocks of this unit further west. The Visperterminen Slice occupies the core of a fold within the Sion-Courmayeur Nappe. The Lower Stalden Slice is overlain by the Upper Stalden Nappe and separated from the Sion-Courmayeur Nappe by the southern branch of the Rhône-Simplon Fault.