Deutsch: Sion-Courmayeur-Decke
Français: Nappe de Sion-Courmayeur
Italiano: Falda Sion-Courmayeur
English: Sion-Courmayeur Nappe
The Sion-Courmayeur Nappe is a Lower Penninic tectonic unit of Western Switzerland. It is dominated by flysch-type rocks, deposited during the Cretaceous in the Valaisan Basin, and has undergone high-pressure / low-temperature metamorphism.
Sion (VS)
bande de Sion (Argand 1906c), zone de Sion = zone de Sion - Val Ferret (Argand 1911b, Burri 1967), Sion-Courmayeur (Trümpy 1954), zone de Sion (Burri 1975), Zone von Brig-Sion-Courmayeur (Leu 1986a/b), zone de Sion-Courmayeur (Escher et al. 1987, Jeanbourquin & Burri 1989), zone Sion-Courmayeur = ZSC (Ackermann et al. 1991), Sion-Courmayeur (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Sion-Courmayeur-Tarentaise nappe (Masson et al. 2008), Sion-Courmayeur Zone (Berger et al. 2017), Sion-Courmayeur Nappe (TK500, Gouffon et al. 2024)