Deutsch: Mergoscia-Zone
Français: Zone de Mergoscia
Italiano: Zona di Mergoscia
English: Mergoscia Zone
The Mergoscia Zone is a heterogeneous tectonic unit of the Western Lepontic (Toce Culimnation). It is composed of ortho- and paragneisses, metapelites, calcschists, metabasites and meta-ultrabasites. Both metabasites and meta-ultrabasites contain rare relics of high-pressure metamorphism (retrogressed eclogites and garnet-metaperidotites). This zone, displaying a high degree of deformation, is also interpreted as a mélange rather than as an originally stratified framework.
Valle di Mergoscia (TI)
Arbedozone (Mittelholzer 1936), Zone von Mergoscia (Kobe 1954 und 1956), zona di Mergoscia, Mergoscia-Zone, Someo zone (Brouwer et al. 2005), Mergoscia zone, Mergoscia nappe, Mergoscia mélange, Mergoscia unit (Steck et al. 2013), --- (Bächlin et al. 1974, Spicher & Wenk 1981, Steck et al. 2013), Zona di Mergoscia (Della Torre & Maggini 2015), Mergoscia Zone (Gouffon et al. 2024)