Tavetsch-Decke

Retour à nappe du Tavetsch

Représentation et statut

Index
TZM
Couleur CMYK
N/A
Couleur RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rang
nappe
Usage
Ce terme est en usage.
Status
valide

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Tavetsch-Decke
Français
Nappe du Tavetsch
Italiano
Falda del Tavetsch
English
Tavetsch Nappe
Origine du nom

Tavetsch = Tujetsch (GR), Surselva

Variantes historiques

Somvixer Zwischenmassiv (Niggli & Staub 1914), Tavetscher Zwischenmassiv (Niggli 1944), Tavetsch-Zwischenmassiv, Tavetsch massive [sic] (Purdy & Stalder 1973), Tavetschermassiv (Büchi & Trümpy 1976), Tavetsch massif (Biino 1994), Tavetsch Nappe (Berger et al. 2017)

Description

Description

Biotitgneis, Zweiglimmergneis, Serizit-Chlorit-Schiefer bis -Phyllit, sowie Amphibolit- und Serpentinitlinsen.

Épaisseur
Ca. 30 km lang und bis max. 5 km breit.

Âge

Âge au sommet
  • Paléozoïque
Âge à la base
  • Précambrien

Géographie

Extension géographique
Surselva (Vorderrheintal), zwischen Oberalppass und Trun/Schlans.
Région-type
Tujetsch (GR)

Références

Définition
Niggli E. (1944) : Das westliche Tavetscher Zwischenmassiv und der angrenzende Nordrand des Gotthardmassivs. Schweiz. mineral. petrogr. Mitt. 14 /1– 2, 58 –301
Révision
Berger Alfons, Mercolli Ivan, Herwegh Marco, Gnos Edwin (2017) : Geological Map of the Aar Massif, Tavetsch and Gotthard Nappes. Geological Special Map 1:100'000, Explanatory Notes 129

p.60: Between the Oberalppass and Trun, a thick suite of gneisses occurs between the mylonitic Clavaniev Zone (Aar Massif) to the north and the Urseren-Garvera Zone (Gotthard Nappe) to the south. NIGGLI (1944) mapped this region in detail and interpreted it as an independent tectonic unit called “Tavetscher Zwischenmassiv”, earlier also known as “ Somvixer Zwischenmassiv ” (NIGGLI & STAUB 1914). In order to better describe its allochthonous nature, illustrated by the intense Alpine deformation and diaphoretic overprint at its borders (NIGGLI 1944), the denomination “Tavetscher Zwischenmassiv” (e. g., SCHMID et al. 2004, PFIFFNER 2014) was abandoned in favour of the term Tavetsch Nappe. The Tavetsch Nappe is not the eastern equivalent of the Goms Zone (previously named “Gomser Zwischenmassiv”, see p. 67 f.), but lies north of the Urseren -Garvera Zone. Its Alpine structural position is therefore intermediate between the southern margin of the Aar Massif and the Gotthard Nappe.

The lithological associations of the Tavetsch and Gotthard Nappes show the same pre -Alpine history (MERCOLLI et al. 1994, BIINO 1994). A short summary of this history will be provided in the description of the lithostratigraphic units of the Gotthard Nappe (see p. 64 ff.). The characteristic Alpine overprint including the occurrence of “ Paraschiefer ” along the borders of the nappe and in discrete mylonitic shear zones in its interior was accurately described by NIGGLI (1944).

The metasedimentary rocks of the Urseren-Garvera Zone south of the Tavetsch Nappe are interpreted as the northern autochthonous cover of the polycyclic metamorphic basement of the Gotthard Nappe, while the Mesozoic relics at the northern border of the Tavetsch Nappe (“ Disentiser Mulde” of NIGGLI 1944) represent parts of the ancient, now strongly tectonised and mylonitised autochthonous cover of the Aar Massif (grouped into the Clavaniev Zone). Thus, the Tavetsch Nappe consists only of pre -Variscan polycyclic metamorphic basement with rare occurrence of Permian metasedimentary rocks and lacks a Mesozoic sedimentary cover.

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