Upper Rhine Graben

Rappresentazione e statuto

Index

URG

Colore CMYK

N/A

Colore RGB

R: 240 G: 235 B: 235

Rango

sottodominio tettonico

Uso

Unità in uso.

Status

valido

Nomenclatura

Deutsch

Oberrhein-Graben

Français

Graben du Haut Rhin

Italiano

Graben dell'Alto Reno

English

Upper Rhine Graben

Origine del nome

siehe www.oberrheingraben.de

Varianti storiche

Oberrheingraben, Rheintalgraben, fossé de la vallée du Rhin, Oberrheintal-Graben = Rheintal-Graben (Büchi & Trümpy 1976), Oberrheinische Tiefebene, Oberrheinisches Tiefland, Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley, fossé rhénan, graben del Reno (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Upper Rhine Graben = Cenozoic of the Rhine Graben (Mojon et al. 2018), Upper Rhine Graben (Gouffon et al. 2024)

Descrizione

Descrizione

DE: Tertiäres, synorogenes, intrakontinentales Vorlandrift (Schumacher 2002), das z.T. durch Reaktivierung paläozoischer Strukturen im Grundgebirge entstanden ist.

FR: Fossé d'effondrement (rift) néogène de l'avant-pays nordalpin autochtone, d'orientation NNE-SSO, représentant le segment central du système du rift ouest-européen.

Gerarchia e successione

Unità di rango inferiore

• Mainz-Becken
• Vorberg-Zone (des Oberrhein-Grabens)
• Kalibecken

Età

Geomorfologia

• Cenozoico

Età alla base

• Cenozoico

Geografia

Estensione geografica

Fossé étroit et linéaire de 30-50 km de large sur 300 km de long entre Bâle (südlichster Grabenrand liegt bei Allschwil (BL)) et Frankfort. Il est bordé à l'est par le Schwarzwald et l'Odenwald et à l'ouest par les Vosges et le Pfälzerwald.

Paleogeografia e tettonica

Paleogeografia

Rheingraben

Termini generici

• Oberrhein-Graben
• Oberrhein_Nord
• Oberrhein_Süd

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.20: The NNE–SSW trending Upper Rhine Graben is located north of Basel. It is part of the European Cenozoic Rift System (Illies 1972, Hinsken et al. 2007), is up to 40 km wide and separates the Haute-Saône Platform to the west from the South German Platform to the east. The graben shoulders are bounded by steep normal faults and include isolated, lowered blocks of Mesozoic platform sediments along the rift-internal sides (the so-called Vorberg Zone, e.g., Isteiner Klotz north of Basel). The Schwarzwald Fault forms the eastern border of the graben. The southwestern border of the graben with the Haute-Saône Platform forms a flexure (see § 2.2). In the southeast, the graben borders the External Folded Jura; the corresponding flexure is accentuated and overprinted by Alpine deformation (Ustaszewski et al. 2005). The graben is filled with Paleogene–Neogene sediments of 2–3 km thickness (e.g., Illies 1981, Sissingh 1998, Berger et al. 2005b).