Quattervals-Decke
Back to Upper AustroalpineRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- tectonic
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Quattervals-Decke
- Français
- Nappe du Quattervals
- Italiano
- Falda del Quattervals
- English
- Quattervals Nappe
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Quatervals-Element (Schmid 1973), Quattervals unit (Furrer et al. 1985), Quatervals-Einheit (Dössegger 1987), Quattervals-Teildecke
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Engadiner Dolomiten (SE der Engadin-Störung).
References
- Definition
-
1985) :
Field workshop on Triassic and Jurassic sediments in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland. Mitt. geol. Inst. ETH und Univ. Zürich (N.F.) 248, 81 S.
An imbricated sheet of Upper Triassic carbonate rocks thrust to the SW or S over the Ortler sediments along the Trupchun-Braulio Line. The Quattervals nappe is part of the S-charl nappe affected by "back-thrusting". It is separated from the S-charl nappe by the complex fault (lag?) of the Gallo Line.
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