Deutsch: Cima-Lunga-Decke
Français: Nappe de la Cima Lunga
Italiano: Falda della Cima Lunga
English: Cima Lunga Nappe
The Cima Lunga Nappe is a tectonic unit of the Eastern Lepontic (Ticino Culmination). It is made up of paragneisses, orthogneisses, sheets of marble and calcschist as well as lenses of mafic and ultramafic rocks that locally have an incoherent character. Eclogitic mineral assemblages are widespread in the mafic and ultramafic rocks. Sheath folds around the disrupted competent mafic and ultramafic lenses suggest intense shearing within a shear zone at the base of the Maggia Nappe. According to most authors, the Cima Lunga Nappe is connected in the east, to the Adula Nappe in the lower Valle Mesolcina.
Cima Lunga (TI)
Cima Lunga-Lappen (Niggli et al. 1936), Cima-Lunga-Serie (Trommsdorff et al. 1975, Heinrich 1978, Stäuble 1978), Cima Lunga Zone (Pfeifer 1978), Cima-Lunga-Lappen (Hofmann & Bühl 1982), Cima Lunga unit (Merle & Le Gal 1988), Cima Lunga Einheit (Pfiffner 1999), Cima Lunga-Einheit (Giger 2000), falda Cima lunga, Cima Lunga zone, Cima Lunga mélange, unità della Cima Lunga (Schenker, Bl. Osogna), Cima Lunga Nappe (Gouffon et al. 2024)