Mélange de Felumaz
Representation and status
- Index
- FTM
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 225 B: 75
- Rank
- tectonically bounded lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Felumaz-Melange
- Français
- Mélange de Felumaz
- Italiano
- Mélange di Felumaz
- English
- Felumaz Mélange
- Historical Variants
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Felumaz tectonic melange (Malusà et al. 2005)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Mélanges
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(2005) :
The Gran San Bernardo nappe in the Aosta valley (western Alps): a composite stack of distinct continental crust units. Bull. Soc. géol. Fr. 176/5, 417-431
p.420: (...) a W-dipping layer of intensely deformed and foliated tectonic slices of basement, cover and ophiolitic rocks several hundreds of metres thick [Caby, 1968; Elter, 1972].