Mittaghorn-Zone (Zermatt)
Back to Gornergrat nappeRepresentation 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
- Historical Variants
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Mittaghorn zone (De Meyer 2007)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
- Metamorphism
- metamorphic
References
- Definition
-
2007) :
Etude géologique du Mittaghorn dans la vallée de Saas (Valais, Suisse). Diplôme (non publié), Université de Lausanne
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"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."