Mélange de Tsaboc
Back to «Zona Interna» (Falda del Gd-St-Bernard)Representation and status
- Index
- TTM
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 225 B: 75
- Rank
- tectonically bounded lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Tsaboc-Melange
- Français
- Mélange de Tsaboc
- Italiano
- Mélange di Tsaboc
- English
- Tsaboc Mélange
- Historical Variants
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Tsaboc tectonic melange (Malusà et al. 2005)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Vallée d'Aoste.
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 nearly horizontal hectometric layer mainly comprised of calcschists classically correlated with the so-called “Avise syncline” [Dal Piaz, 1965; Caby, 1968; Baudin, 1987], which represents the westward prolongation of the Tsaboc tectonic melange on the left side of the Grisenche Valley.