Vosges Massif

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rank

orography

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Vogesen-Massiv

Français

Massif des Vosges

Italiano

Massiccio dei Vosgi

English

Vosges Massif

Historical Variants

Voges Massif (Gouffon et al. 2024)

Description

Description

Massif cristallin affleurant à la faveur de la remontée du socle du Plateau de Haute Saône en bordure occidentale du Fossé du Haut-Rhin.

Palaenography and tectonic

Paleogeography

North Alpine Foreland Basin

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Vogesen

References

Definition

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

p.20: 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.