Falda del Moncucco
Representation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- nappe
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Moncucco-Decke
- Français
- Nappe du Moncucco
- Italiano
- Falda del Moncucco
- English
- Moncucco Nappe
- Origin of the Name
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Moncucco
- Historical Variants
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Moncucco Nappe (Gouffon et al. 2024)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.48: The Moncucco Nappe occupies the core of the Vanzone Antiform in the Valle d’Ossola. It consists of a crystalline basement intruded by a Permian granite and is interpreted as the equivalent of the Monte Leone Nappe in the hangingwall of the Simplon Fault. Similar to that nappe, the Moncucco Nappe contains a large ultramafic body at its top (Steck et al. 2015).