Recherche

Deutsch: Kammlistock-Decke
Français: Nappe du Kammlistock
Italiano: Falda del Kammlistock
English: Kammlistock Nappe

The Kammlistock Nappe is one of several small Lower Helvetic tectonic units of the Klausenpass region, wedged between the sedimentary series of the Aar massif and the Axen Thrust. It is constituted by Late Jurassic to Paleogene sediments that were deposited further south than the autochthonous-parautochthonous sediments of the Aar Massif, but still in the North Helvetic realm.

Kammlistock = Chammliberg (UR)

--- (Staub 1911, Schumacher 1928, Oberholzer 1933, Brückner 1943, Frey 1965), Kammlistock-Decke (Brückner 1946, Hantke et al. 2011), Chammlistock-Decke (Spillmann et al. 2011), Kammlistock Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: Liebenstein-Decke
Français: Nappe de Liebenstein
Italiano: Falda di Liebenstein
English: Liebenstein Nappe

The Liebenstein Nappe represents the continuation of the Wildhaus Mélange in Austria. It consists of a slice complex including a “wildflysch” (“Feuerstätter Nappe”).

Liebenstein (Allgäu, S-Deutschland)

Liebensteiner-Decke = Hochhelvetikum (Allemann & Blaser 1951), Schuppenzone von Vorarlberg = "Liebensteiner Decke" (Bayer 1982), Liebensteiner Decke (Tollmann 1985), Liebenstein-Schuppenzone (Friebe 2007), Liebenstein Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: Säntis-Decke
Français: Nappe du Säntis
Italiano: Falda del Säntis
English: Säntis Nappe

The Säntis Nappe is an Upper Helvetic tectonic nappe of the Eastern Swiss Alps, extending from the Linth Valley in the west to the Rhine Valley in the east (including the Fläscher Berg east of Sargans). It overlies the Glarus Nappe Complex north of the Walensee and Seeztal, forming a broad synform, in the core of which are preserved klippen consisting of Upper Helvetic mélanges, as well as Lower and Middle Penninic units.
The Säntis Nappe is composed of Cretaceous and rare Paleogene sediments. Its internal structure is characterized by fold trains and fold-parallel thrust faults, with an important N–S oriented fault between Sax and Appenzell (Sax-Schwende Fault) that can be shown to have been active during the nappe internal deformation.

Säntis (AI)/(AR)/(SG) im Alpstein

Säntis-Teildecke (Schmidt & Preiswerk 1908), Nappe du Sentis (Boussac 1912), nappe du Säntis-Churfristen (Trümpy 1970), Churfristen-Säntis-Decke (Bayer 1982), Säntis Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: «Ultrahelvetikum»
Français: «Ultrahelvétique»
Italiano: «Ultraelvetico»
English: «Ultrahelvetic»

Ensemble de nappes fortement écaillées enveloppant les nappes ultrahelvétiques et replissées de manière complexe avec celles-ci (au point de se retrouver parfois en position infra-helvétique). Leur succession stratigraphique à faciès souvent bathyal indique une origine paléogéographique dans la partie méridionale du domaine helvétique.

--- (Heim 1921), nappes ultrahelvétiques, Hochhelvetikum p.p. (Allemann & Blaser 1951), Ultrahelvetische Decken (Trümpy 1974), exotic cover sediments (Milnes & Pfiffner 1977), exotische Einheiten [des Infrahelvetikums] (Pfiffner 1978), Ultraelvetico (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Ultrahelvetic (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Wildflyschdecke (Arn. Heim 1908), Préalpes externes, Préalpes bordières (Gagnebin 1924)

Deutsch: Murtiröl-Schuppe
Français: Écaille du Murtiröl
Italiano: Scaglia del Murtiröl
English: Murtiröl Slice

The Murtiröl Slice, consisting of basement and cover, forms a dome-like feature in the footwall of an important extensional detachment. This detachment fault and the adjacent Engadine Fault separate the Murtiröl Slice from all the surrounding units belonging to either the Bernina Nappe Complex (in the northwest and southwest) or to the Upper Austroalpine Languard and Ortler nappes (in the east and northeast).

Piz Murtiröl (GR)

Schuppenregion des Murtiröl (Spitz 1917), Murtirölserie = Saluverserie (Roesli 1927), Murtiröl-Schuppe, Murtiröl-Val Vaüglia imbricates (Manatschal 1995, Manatschal & Nievergelt 1997), Murtiröl-Val-Vaüglia-Schuppen, Murtiröl Slice (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: Languard-Decke
Français: Nappe du (Piz) Languard
Italiano: Falda del (Piz) Languard
English: Languard Nappe

The Languard Nappe covers is a basement-dominated Upper Austroalpine tectonic unit occupying a relatively small area. It is surrounded by the Engadine Fault in the northwest and lacks an equivalent on the northwestern side of this fault. It overthrusts the Bernina Nappe in the south, while in the north it overlies the Mezzaun Slice of the Bernina Nappe Complex and the Murtiröl Slice of the Err Nappe Complex; the thrust contacts being overprinted by normal faults (e. g., the Mezzaun Normal Fault) over large distances. To the east and northeast the Languard Nappe is overthrust by the basement of the Campo Nappe Complex and by the Ortler Nappe, which both occupy a higher tectonic position.

Piz Languard (GR)

Languarddecke (Schuppli 1921, Rösli 1928, Staub 1934, Spillmann 1993), Languard-Decke (Staub 1946), Falda di Languard (Pozzi 1959), Campo-Languard-Einheit (Dössegger 1987), Languard Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Ovel da Languard

Deutsch: Madrisa-Schuppe
Français: Écaille de Madrisa
Italiano: Scaglia di Madrisa
English: Madrisa Slice

The Madrisa Slice, which is isolated north of Klosters between the Silvretta Nappe above and the Upper Penninic Arosa Zone below, is considered to be an inverted sliver derived from the Lechtal Nappe.

Madrisa (GR)

--- (Seidlitz 1906, Häfner 1924, Trümpy & Haccard 1969), Madrisa-Zone (Tollmann 1970, Haldimann 1975, Burger 1978, Lüdin 1987), Madrisa-Scholle (Pfiffner 2015, Signer et al. 2018), Madrisa Slice (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: Krabachjoch-Decke
Français: Nappe du Krabachjoch
Italiano: Falda del Krabajoch
English: Krabachjoch Nappe

The Krabachjoch Nappe is the upper tectonic unit of the Tirolic Nappe System (Upper Austroalpine) in the Northern Calcareous Alps. It has an exclusively Triassic stratigraphic sequence ranging from «Alpiner Buntsandstein» (Chazforà-/Fuorn-Fm.) up to «Hauptdolomit».

Krabajoch (Österreich)

Krabachjoch-Decke (Ampferer 1914a/b, Ampferer 1932, May 1998, May & Eisbacher 1999, Gruber et al. 2010), nappe du Krabachjoch = diverticulation du Krabachjoch (Hirsch 1966), Krabajoch Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: Julier-Decke
Français: Nappe du Julier
Italiano: Falda del Julier
English: Julier Nappe

The Julier Nappe represents the equivalent of the Bernina Nappe northwest of the Engadine Fault. This fault sinistrally offsets the two basement-dominated nappes, combined with relative uplift of the Bernina Nappe in respect to the Julier Nappe. The lithological characteristics of the basement are identical to those of the Bernina Nappe. An undisturbed contact between basement and cover of the Julier Nappe is not preserved. Parts of its former cover became detached and form klippes preserved in the core of the multiphase synclinorium of the “Samedan Zone” (Schlattain-Clavadatsch-Padella Slices). In the area of Piz Nair near St. Moritz, however, the base of the Julier Nappe appears to have overthrust its own cover.

Piz Güglia = Piz Julier (GR)

Julierlappen (Staub 1934), Julier-Decke (Staub 1946), lambeau du Piz Julier (Trümpy 1970), Julierdecke (Spillmann 1993), Julier basement nappe (Manatschal & Nivergelt 1997), Julier Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Deutsch: Glarner Deckenkomplex
Français: Complexe de nappes de Glaris
Italiano: Complesso di falde di Glarona
English: Glarus Nappe Complex

The Glarus Nappe Complex is an Upper Helvetic tectonic nappe complex extending from the Linth Valley to the Rhine Valley. The stratigraphic series of the Glarus Nappe Complex consists of a thick Verrucano (Permian), Triassic and Jurassic series, as well as Cretaceous and some Paleogene sediments depending on the subunit of the complex.

Glarner Alpen (GL)

Glarner-Deckfalte (Schmidt & Preiswerk 1908), Glarnerdecken (Brunnschweiler 1959), nappe de Glaris (Trümpy 1970), Glarus Nappe Complex (Berger et al. 2017, Gouffon et al. 2024), Glarner Deckenkomplex (Hantke et al. 2019)