Autochthonous North Alpine Foreland
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
- Autochthones Nordalpines Vorland
- Français
- Avant-pays nord-alpin autochtone
- Italiano
- Avampaese nordalpino autoctono
- English
- Autochthonous North Alpine Foreland
- Historical Variants
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Ausseralpiner Bereich, Schwach deformiertes Nordalpines Vorland (nagra), unités marginales, Autochthones Nordalpines Vorland (DM-Geologie), Autochthonous North Alpine Foreland (Gouffon et al. 2024)
Description
- Description
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Europäischer Kontinentalschelf ohne alpine Deformation.
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- North Alpine Foreland Basin
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.19: The Autochthonous North Alpine Foreland consists of the European platform with its Cenozoic graben structures of eastern France, southwestern Germany and northern Switzerland (e.g., Illies 1981, Eisbacher et al. 1989). The boundary between the Autochthonous North Alpine Foreland and the Detached North Alpine Foreland marks the northernmost limit of significant Alpine compressional deformation.
Accordingly, the Autochthonous North Alpine Foreland is widely absent [sic; >>> deprived] of map-scale compressional structures; small-scale compressive structures however occur in the southern marginal area (Dèzes et al. 2004, Madritsch et al. 2008). According to microscopic strain analyses, the effects of Neogene Alpine deformation extend hundreds of kilometers out into this domain (Craddock et al. 2022 and ref. therein).
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Bresse Graben
- Name Origin
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Bresse (France)
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- valid
- In short
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The N–S trending Bresse Graben (a segment of the European Cenozoic Rift System) is ca. 35–60 km wide and stretches roughly from Lyon to Dijon. It is clearly separated from the Haute-Saône Platform by NNE–SSW to NE–SW oriented normal faults.
The Bresse Graben is filled with Paleogene–Neogene sediments which are up to 2 km thick.
- Age
- Mesozoic
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Haute-Saône Platform
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- valid
- In short
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The Haute-Saône Platform forms the southeastern rim of the Paris Basin and is formed predominantly by Mesozoic sediments, with some post-rift Neogene Molasse sediments. It is mostly located in France except for the Ajoie area. At its eastern boundary, the separation from the northern part of the Upper Rhine Graben is clearly defined by NNE–SSW trending normal faults. In the south, however, the situation is more complex. Here, the limestone plateau of Ajoie, regarded as belonging to the Haute-Saône Platform, is separated from the northward-adjacent Upper Rhine Graben by a W–E trending flexure dissected by N–S trending normal faults. To the south, the Haute-Saône Platform is mostly bounded by the Detached North Alpine Foreland, in particluar by the frontal Faisceaux of the External Folded Jura. South of the Ajoie area, where the External Folded Jura is missing, the Internal Folded Jura is thrust directly onto the Haute-Saône Platform.
- Age
- Paleozoic
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Vosges Massif
- Rank
- orography
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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The Vosges Massif exposes the basement of the Haute-Saône Platform. It consists of pre-Mesozoic rocks, including Variscan magmatites and metasediments, pre-Variscan metamorphic rocks and, on the southwestern side of the Upper Rhine Graben, unconformably overlying Permo-Carboniferous sediments.
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Upper Rhine Graben
- Name Origin
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siehe www.oberrheingraben.de
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- valid
- In short
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The NNE–SSW trending Upper Rhine Graben (a segment of the European Cenozoic Rift System located north of Basel) is up to 40 km wide and separates the Haute-Saône Platform to the west from the South German Platform to the east. The graben shoulders are bounded by steep normal faults and include isolated, lowered blocks of Mesozoic platform sediments along the rift-internal sides (the so-called Vorberg Zone, e.g., Isteiner Klotz north of Basel). The Schwarzwald Fault forms the eastern border of the graben. The southwestern border of the graben with the Haute-Saône Platform forms a flexure. In the southeast, the graben borders the External Folded Jura; the corresponding flexure is accentuated and overprinted by Alpine deformation.
The Upper Rhine Graben is filled with Paleogene–Neogene sediments of 2–3 km thickness.
- Age
- Cenozoic
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Mainz-Becken
- Name Origin
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Mainz (Deutschland), Rheinland-Pfalz
- Rank
- sedimentary basin
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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Bassin de sédimentation oligocène-miocène de la partie septentrionale du Fossé du Haut-Rhin.
- Age
- Oligocene
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Vorberg-Zone (des Oberrhein-Grabens)
- Name Origin
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siehe Wikipedia
- Rank
- tectonic zone
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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The Vorberg Zone encompasses blocks of Mesozoic platform sediments lowered along steep normal faults at the rift-internal sides of the Upper Rhine Graben (e.g., Isteiner Klotz north of Basel).
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Isteiner Horst («Isteiner Klotz»)
- Name Origin
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Istein (Deutschland)
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- local name (informal)
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Wohlgeschichtete-Kalke-Formation
- Name Origin
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Siehe Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon Deutschland (LithoLex).
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
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Dünngebankter mikritischer Kalk.
- Age
- late Oxfordian
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«Leitschichten»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
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«Nerineenkalk» (Séquanien)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- incorrect term (disused)
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«Mumienbank»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
- Valid term
- Hauptmumienbank-Member
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«Trümmerbank»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
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«Grenzmergelhorizont»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Valid term
- Roeschenz-Member
- In short
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Kalkmergel-Horizont zwischen ungeschichtete Kalke des «Rauraciens» (unten) und wohlgeschichtete Kalke des «Séquaniens» (oben).
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«Splitterkalk»
- Name Origin
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Splitterige, harte und spröde Kalke
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Valid term
- Tiergarten-Member Buix-Member
- In short
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Spröder, dichter, weisser bis gelblicher mikritischer Kalk, gegen oben oolithisch.
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«Jaspisknollen»
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Valid term
- Buix-Member
- In short
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Lokaler Leithorizont mit Silexknollen im mittleren Teil des «Splitterkalkes».
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«Rauracien-Korallenkalk»
- Name Origin
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Rauraci: peuple gaulois qui vivait à l'ouest de Bâle
- Rank
- petrographic facies
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
- Valid term
- Grellingen-Member
- In short
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Koralligenen Fazies der St-Ursanne-Formation (Bioherme und Biostrome).
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«Thamnastraeen-Mergel»
- Name Origin
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Namengebendes Fossil (Korallen): Thamnastraea arachnoides Parkinson.
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
- Valid term
- Liesberg-Member
- In short
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Blaugraue, etwas sandige Mergel mit zahlreichen mit häufiges Auftreten von leicht verkieselten Thamnastreen.(Korallenstöcke des «Unteren Rauraciens»).
- Age
- Oxfordian
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«Terrain à chailles (marno-calcaires)»
- Name Origin
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Présence de miches calcaires (et non de nodules de silex, comme le terme de chailles le fait penser).
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- incorrect term (disused)
- Valid term
- Sornetan-Member
- In short
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Marnes avec de grandes concrétions calcaires contenant de la glauconie et des ammonites.
- Age
- Oxfordian
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Kalibecken
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Bassin de sédimentation éocène-oligocène de la partie méridionale du Fossé du Haut-Rhin, caractérisé par une importante accumulation d'évaporites (Éocène tardif - Oligogcène précoce).
- Age
- middle Eocene
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Wittelsheimer Becken
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Cuvette occidentale du bassin potassique rhénan.
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Münchhauser Subbecken
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Cuvette centrale, peu marquée, du bassin potassique rhénan.
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Bugginger Becken
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Cuvette orientale du bassin potassique rhénan.
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graben de Dannemarie
- Name Origin
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Dannemarie (France)
- Rank
- tectonic
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
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Prolongation méridionale du bassin potassique rhénan (les évaporites n'y sont toutefois plus guère développées). L'accident d'Illfurt le sépare du horst de Mulhous à l'est.
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South German Platform
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Status
- valid
- In short
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... abgegrenzt im Westen durch den Oberrhein-Graben, im Osten durch die Böhmische Masse.
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Hegau-Bodensee Graben
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Status
- valid
- In short
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The NW–SE trending extensional Hegau-Bodensee Graben represents the southeastern extension of the Freiburg-Bonndorf-Bodensee Fault Zone and is associated with the Neogene Hegau Volcanic Province.
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Schwarzwald Massif
- Name Origin
- Rank
- orography
- Status
- informal term
- In short
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The Schwarzwald Massif exposes the basement of the South German Platform. It consists mainly of metamorphic and plutonic rocks, with some remnants of Late Paleozoic sediments. It is separated from the Upper Rhine Graben by a major normal fault (Schwarzwald Fault).