Toce 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
Tosa-Kulmination
Français
Culmination du Toce
Italiano
Culminazione del Toce
English
Toce Culmination
Origin of the Name

Toce river (Valle Antigorio, Italia)

Historical Variants

Tosakulmination (Bosshard 1925, Bader 1934), Tosa-Kulmination (Günthert 1958), Toce culmination, Simplon culmination, Verampio-Antigorio dome (Kuhn 2004), culminazione del Sempione = culminazione del Toce (Della Torre & Maggin 2015)

Geography

Geographical extent
Alpi Lepontine occidentali: Simplon pass, Valle Divedro, Valle Antigorio, Basodino, Val Bavona, Valle Onsernone.
Type area
Valle Antigorio (Italia)

Palaenography and tectonic

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

Material and varia

Images
Lepontic units
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