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Rappresentazione e statuto

Colore CMYK: N/A
Colore RGB: R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rango: tettonica
Uso: Unità in uso.
Status: valido

Nomenclatura

Deutsch: Avers-Decke
Français: Nappe de l'Avers
Italiano: Falda dell'Avers
English: Avers Nappe

Origine del nome: Avers (GR)

Varianti storiche: «synclinal» de l'Avers (Trümpy 1970), Externer Piemont-Trog = Avers (Büchi & Trümpy 1976), Avers-Zone, Avers Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Descrizione

Descrizione

... bestehend aus kalkigem Glimmerschiefer.

Inhomogene, sandig-tonig-kalkige Metasedimente, meta-ophiolithisches Material (Metaggabros, Prasinite, Serpentinite), sowie Radiolarit, Aptychenkalk und Palombini-Schiefer (Montrasio 1984, Liniger & Nivergelt 1990, Liniger 1992, Spillmann 1993 S.14)

Gerarchia e successione

Limite inferiore: Suretta-Decke: "Im Avers und im Valmalenco folgen darüber Kalkschiefer, welche ohne genaue lithologische und tektonische Trennung übergehen in inhomogene, sandig-tonig-kalkige Metasedimente, welche meta-ophiolithisches Material (Metaggabros, Prasinite, Serpentinite) und zugehörige südpenninische Sedimente (Radiolarit, Aptychenkalk, Palombini) enthalten (Montrasio 1984, Liniger & Nivergelt 1990, Liniger 1992)." (Spillmann 1993 S.14)

Età

Geomorfologia

Cretacico

Età alla base

Giurassico

Geografia

Estensione geografica: Avers und Val Malenco (Lanzada-Fenster).

Paleogeografia e tettonica

Paleogeografia

Bacino Piemontese

Termini generici

Avers

Tipo di origine

tettonico

Referenze

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

p.77: The Avers Nappe is made up of shaly-calcareous-sandy marine sediments and ophiolitic rocks originating from the Piemonte-Liguria Ocean. This nappe represents an accretionary wedge at the base of an upper plate consisting of the other Upper Penninic and overlying Austroalpine nappes. This wedge directly overlies the Mesozoic cover of the Middle Penninic Suretta Nappe and probably formed in the Early Paleocene (Schmid et al. 1996 b). The basal thrust of the Avers Nappe was deformed congruently with the Suretta Nappe, and both units were later back-folded together in the upper limb of the huge Niemet-Beverin Backfold (Milnes & Schmutz 1978, Schmid et al. 1996 b, Scheiber et al. 2012). A backthrust that formed during this same phase brought part of the Middle Penninic Schams Nappe Complex back towards SE over the Avers Nappe. In its southernmost part, a large normal fault (Turba Mylonite Zone) separates the Avers Nappe and the backthrust Schams and Tomül nappes in the footwall from the Platta and Malenco-Forno-Lizun nappes in the hangingwall (Nievergelt et al. 1996).
Next to the sediments of the Suretta Nappe, the larger of the two Lanzada Windows in Val Malenco (§ 6.3.2.1) exposes some small occurrences of metagabbro and ultramafics that are correlated with the Avers Nappe, hosting a recently detected eclogite (Droop & Chavrit 2014). This, together with the occurrence of blueschists in the Avers Nappe (Oberhänsl i 1978), documents the existence of a probably Paleocene major subduction zone at the base of the other Upper Penninic units (Schmid et al. 1997 b). Note, however, that the accretion of these other Upper Penninic nappes (described hereafter) below the Austroalpine nappe pile occurred earlier, i. e., during the Late Cretaceous (Handy et al. 1996).

Avers-Decke