Unité Supérieure (Nappe du Mont Mary)

Rappresentazione e statuto

Colore RGB

R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rango

unità tettonica

Uso

Unità in uso.

Status

termine informale

Nomenclatura

Deutsch

Obere Einheit (Mont-Mary-Decke)

Français

Unité Supérieure (Nappe du Mont Mary)

Italiano

Unità Superiore (Falda del Mont Mary)

English

Upper Unit (Mont Mary Nappe)

Varianti storiche

Intermediate unit of the Mont Mary nappe (Canepa et al. 1990), Upper Unit (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Paleogeografia e tettonica

Termini generici

• Mont-Mary

Tipo di origine

• tettonico

Metamorfismo

metamorfo

Referenze

Revisione

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

p.81: The Mont Mary Nappe also includes two crystalline basement units. The so-called Lower Unit mainly comprises pre-Alpine amphibolite-facies paragneisses and minor amphibolites and orthogneisses. The Upper Unit is similar to the Valpelline Unit of the Dent Blanche Nappe.