Visperterminen-Schuppe

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rank

tectonic zone

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Visperterminen-Schuppe

Français

Écaille de Visperterminen

Italiano

Scaglia di Visperterminen

English

Visperterminen Slice

Origin of the Name

Visperterminen (VS)

Historical Variants

digitation de Visperterbinen (Argand 1911), zone de Visperterminen (Bearth 1963), unité de Visperterminen (Burri 1979), Lappen von Visperterminen (Bolli et al. 1980), Visperterminen Slice (TK500, Gouffon et al. 2024)

Palaenography and tectonic

Paleogeography

Briançonnais Terrane :

microcontinent briançonnais

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Visperterminen

Kind of protolith

• tectonic

References

Definition

Gouffon Yves (Editor) (2024) : Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern

p.63: Between Visp and the Simplonpass, two graphitic schist and paragneiss slices are attributed to the Zone Houillère by analogy with the rocks of this unit further west. The Visperterminen Slice occupies the core of a fold within the Sion-Courmayeur Nappe. The Lower Stalden Slice is overlain by the Upper Stalden Nappe and separated from the Sion-Courmayeur Nappe by the southern branch of the Rhône-Simplon Fault.