zone de cisaillement d'Entrelore

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Representation and status

Index
ESZ
Color RGB
R: 250 G: 50 B: 200
Rank
tectonic
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Entrelore-Scherzone
Français
zone de cisaillement d'Entrelore
Italiano
zona di taglio di Entrelore
English
Entrelore shear zone
Historical Variants

Entrelore shear zone (Malusà et al. 2005)

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • tectonic
Metamorphism
metamorphic

References

Definition
Malusà Marco G., Polino Riccardo, Martin Silvana (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: (...) important NW-dipping structure that involves slices of both basement and cover rocks recrystallized under greenschist facies conditions [Butler and Freeman, 1996; Freeman et al., 1997].

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