Externes Aar-Massiv
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic domain
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Externes Aar-Massiv
- Français
- Massif de l'Aar externe
- Italiano
- Massiccio dell'Aare esterno
- English
- External Aar Massif
- Historical Variants
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externes Aar-Massiv (Sartori et al. 2017), External Aar Massif (Gouffon et al. 2024)
Description
- Description
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... nördlich der Roti-Chüe-Gampel-Scherzone.
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.33: The Aar Massif and its autochthonous-parautochthonous sedimentary cover occupies a belt about 20 km wide and 160 km long in the central part of the Alps, between Sierre in Valais and Landquart in Graubünden. It is subdivided by several faults into a large External Aar Massif, making up almost the entire width of the Aar Massif in its central part, and a thinner Internal Aar Massif, which is subdivied into two submassifs: the Baldschieder-Gletsch Submassif, which crops out in upper Valais region, south of the Rote Kuh-Gampel Shear Zone – a reactivated paleofault – and its possible continuation between Aletsch and Rhône glaciers, and the Trun-Punteglias Submassif in the Surselva (Graubünden). North of the Lötschental, the External Aar Massif overthrusts the Gastern Submassif. The contact is marked by a thin band of Triassic and Jurassic sediments (the “Jungfrau Wedge”), which includes overturned sediments of the External Aar Massif. The entire Aar Massif is made up of a pre-Variscan to Variscan polycyclic metamorphic basement with Variscan intrusions. Several large-scale structures follow the general strike of the External Aar Massif. They include longitudinal faults and very tight synclines exposing Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic sediments.