Nappe des Diablerets
Back to Wildhorn nappe complexRepresentation 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
- Diablerets-Decke
- Français
- Nappe des Diablerets
- Italiano
- Falda dei Diablerets
- English
- Diablerets Nappe
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Diablerets Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Description
- Description
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FR: Nappe de l'Helvétique supérieur de Suisse occidentale, constituant l'élément inférieur du complexe de nappes du Wildhorn, avec une série stratigraphique normale allant du Jurassique moyen à l'Eocène tardif.
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Upper boundary
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Le Crétacé de la nappe des Diablerets est chevauché par le Dogger de la la nappe du Mont Gond.
- Lower boundary
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La nappe des Diablerets chevauche la nappe d'Ardon par l'intermédiaire d'une mince zone continue de Dogger (argilites de la Fm. de Dugny).
Age
- Age at top
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- late Eocene
- Age at base
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- Middle Jurassic
Geography
- Type area
- massif des Diablerets (VD/VS)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.40: The Wildhorn Nappe Complex consists of three superposed nappes: the Diablerets Nappe, present only in the southwest, at the base of the complex, is linked by a tight syncline to the Mont Gond Nappe, which is also outcropping mainly in the southwestern part of the complex. The highest Sublage Nappe forms the main body of the complex; it overlies the thin Jägerchrüz Nappe north of Sierre and the Gellihorn Nappe further northeast (see § 4.1.3).