linea dello Zebrù

Représentation et statut

Couleur CMYK
N/A
Couleur RGB
R: 250 G: 50 B: 50
Rang
tectonique
Usage
Ce terme est en usage.
Status
terme informel

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Zebrù-Linie
Français
ligne de Zebrù
Italiano
linea dello Zebrù
English
Zebrù line
Origine du nom

Valle Zebrù (Italia)

Variantes historiques

Il Gran Zebrù / Passi di Zebrù, Zebrù Thrust (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Remarques nomenclatoriales

piano di scorrimento dello Zebrù (Pozzi 1959), --- (Conti 1991), Zebrù-Linie (Spillmann 1993)

Hiérarchie et succession

Limite supérieure

Ortler-Sedimente

Limite inférieure

Campo-Kristallin

Paléogéographie et tectonique

Termes génériques
Type de protolithe
  • tectonique

Références

Révision
Gouffon Yves (Editor) (2024) : Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern

p.96: The Ortler Nappe overthrusts the Campo Nappe along the WNW– ESE striking Zebrù Thrust, which curves eastward to a NNW– SSE orientation. This thrust formed during an early stage of Late Cretaceous WNW- directed thrusting (Conti et al. 1994). Over most of its strike, the Zebrù Thrust follows the incompetent sediments of the Raibl Group, which serve as the dominant basal decollement horizon for the Mesozoic sequence of the Ortler Nappe dominated by massive Late Triassic sediments. The youngest sediments are of Turonian age (Caron et al. 1982), thus providing an important constraint regarding the timing of Cretaceous orogeny in eastern Switzerland. Only small occurrences of basement and pre-Carnian sediments are preserved locally, where the decollement horizon in the Carnian sediments encountered a syn-rift normal fault of Jurassic age (Conti et al. 1994). According to a paleogeographic reconstruction by Conti (1997), the former basement of the predominantly Mesozoic sequence of the Ortler Nappe most probably occurred east of the present Campo Nappe Complex outcrops and west of the future Ötztal Nappe Complex that nowadays occupies a higher structural position. The transport distance during top-WNW thrusting amounts to well over 100 km.

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