Walser Schuppe
Back to Rothorn-Schwarzhorn Nappe ComplexRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic slice
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Walser Schuppe
- Français
- Écaille de la Walser Alpe
- Italiano
- Scaglia della Walser Alpe
- English
- Walser Slice
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
-
Walser slice (Nilius et al. 2016), Walser Slice (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Rätikon.
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
-
Adriatic continental margin
:
southern, passive continental margin / platform
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- tectonic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.89: In the Rätikon area (northeastern corner of the Prättigau Half-Window), Nagel (2006) correlated the Lower Austroalpine slices to the following units defined south of the Prättigau Half-Window: the “Walser Slice” with the Rothorn Nappe (Bernina Nappe Complex) and the “Schwarzhorn Slice” with the Dorfberg Nappe (Err Nappe Complex). The “Schwarzhorn Slice” consists mainly of a metamorphosed diorite body of Cambrian age (Nilius et al. 2016) and is interpreted to represent the continuation of the “Gabbrozug” in the Dorfberg Nappe (Streckeisen 1948).