Walsertal-Zone
Back to Allgäu NappeRepresentation and status
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic zone
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Walsertal-Zone
- Français
- Zone du Walsertal
- Italiano
- Zona del Walsertal
- English
- Walsertal Zone
- Origin of the Name
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Walsertal (Österreich)
- Historical Variants
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Quetschzone (Blumenthal 1926, Blaser 1952, Allemann 1957), unterostalpine Randzone = unterostalpine Schuppenzone (Medwenitsch 1962), Randcenoman (Müller 1973), Randzone (Richter 1956/1957), Walsertal-Zone (Winkler 1987, Lüdin 1987)
References
- Definition
- (1988) : Mid- to early Late Cretaceous flysch and melange formations in the western part of the Eastern Alps: palaeotectonic implications. Jb. geol. Bundesanstalt (Wien) 131/2, 341-389