Ticino Culmination
Representation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Ticino-Dom
- Français
- Culimation du Tessin
- Italiano
- Culminazione del Ticino
- English
- Ticino Culmination
- Origin of the Name
-
Ticino = Tessin (TI) river (Valle Leventina)
- Historical Variants
-
Tessinerkulmination (Bosshard 1925), Tessiner Kulmination (Bossard 1929a/b, Kündig 1926a), culminazione assiale ticinese (Godenzi 1963), Leventina-Kulmination (Gansser & Dal Vesco 1964), Ticino-Leventina-Dom, Leventina antiform, Ticino culmination, culminazione assiale dell'Ossola-Ticino (Dal Piaz et al. 1992), Leventina dome (Kuhn 2004), culminazione del Ticino (Della Torre & Maggini 2015)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Alpi Lepontine orientali: Valle Leventina, Val Calanca, Valle Mesolcina.
- Type area
- Valle Leventina (TI)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- tectonic
Material and varia
Images
