Deutsch: Valpelline-Einheit
Français: Unité de Valpelline
Italiano: Unità di Valpelline
English: Valpelline Unit
The Valpelline Unit forms the structurally upper part of the Salassic Dent Blanche Nappe. It consists of paragneisses with mafic and carbonate rocks, characterized by a pre-Alpine amphibolite to granulite-facies metamorphism.
Vallée de la Valpelline (Italia)
Valpelline Gesteine (Gerlach 1869), Glimmerschiefer von Valpelline (Gerlach 1871), synclinal de la Valpelline (Argand 1906a), Division inférieure = Série de Valpelline (Argand 1908), série de la Valpelline = complexe de la Valpelline (Bartholmès 1920), Serie di Valpellina (Diehl et al. ----), Elemento tectonico della Valpelline e delle zone kinzigitiche (Hermann 1937), Valpellineserie (Stutz 1940), Serie dioritico-kinzigitica = Precarbonifero (Bearth), Serie di Valpelline (Carraro et al. 1970, Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Valpelline Series (Compagnoni et al. 1977), Valpelline group (Trümpy et al. 1980), Valpelline series (Pfeifer et al. 1991), Série de la Valpelline (Burri 1994), oberes Element (Hellwig 2003), Valpelline Series = Upper basement units = Unità di Basamento Superiori (Dal Piaz et al. 2015), Valpelline Unit (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
village/commune de Valpelline >< la Valpelline (vallée)