Mittaghorn-Zone (Zermatt)

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Representation and status

Color RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rank
tectonic zone
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Mittaghorn-Zone (Zermatt)
Français
Zone du Mittaghorn (Zermatt)
Italiano
Zona del Mittaghorn (Zermatt)
English
Mittaghorn Zone (Zermatt)
Origin of the Name

Mittaghorn (VS)

Historical Variants

Mittaghorn zone (De Meyer 2007)

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

Definition
De Meyer Caroline (2007) : Etude géologique du Mittaghorn dans la vallée de Saas (Valais, Suisse). Diplôme (non publié), Université de Lausanne

"The Mittaghorn zone , which is composed of garnet and muscovite bearing schists, quartzites and calcareous and dolomitic marbles. This zone is surrounded by the meta-sediments of the Zermatt-Saas Fee zone. Several interpretations are possible: first, the meta-sediments of this zone are part of the meta-sediments of the Zermatt-Saas Fee zone, which makes the Mittaghorn zone a part of the Zermatt-Saas Fee zone. Second, the meta-sediments of the Mittaghorn zone are part of a fold of the Gornergrat nappe into the bundnerschiefer of the Zermatt-Saas Fee zone. Third, the Mittaghorn zone is a distinct tectonic zone."

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