Écaille d'Étirol–Lévaz

Rappresentazione e statuto

Colore CMYK
N/A
Colore RGB
R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
Rango
scaglia tettonica
Uso
Unità in uso.
Status
termine informale

Nomenclatura

Deutsch
Étirol–Lévaz-Schuppe
Français
Écaille d'Étirol–Lévaz
Italiano
Scaglia di Étirol–Lévaz
English
Étirol–Lévaz Slice
Origine del nome

Étirol (Italia)

Varianti storiche

Etirol-Levaz-Schuppe = Ecaille d'Etirol-Levaz (Bl. Matterhorn), lembo Austroalpino settentrionale di Etirol-Levaz (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Etirol-Levaz Slice (TK500, Gouffon et al. 2024)

Descrizione

Descrizione

Complexe de micaschistes éclogitiques de l'Austroalpin/Salassique septentrional.

Paleogeografia e tettonica

Termini generici
Tipo di origine
  • tettonico
Facies metamorfica
  • facies eclogitica

Referenze

Revisione
Gouffon Yves (Editor) (2024) : Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern

p.69: The Mont Emilius Nappe, the Etirol-Levaz Slice, the Châtillon-St-Vincent Slices (Dal Piaz 1999 and ref. therein) and the Theodulgletscher Slice (Bucher et al. 2020), located between the Zermatt - Saas Fee Nappe and the Tsaté Nappe, comprise eclogitic continental basement rocks. Due to the similarity of their pre-Alpine lithology with that of the Dent Blanche and Sesia nappes, their origin is probably the Adriatic continental margin. However, these units occupy a lower structural level than the Dent Blanche and Sesia nappes that belong tectonically to the Salassic domain. They exhibit a tectono-metamorphic history similar to that of the Zermatt - Saas Fee Nappe, including the Early Eocene age for their high-pressure metamorphism (Dal Piaz et al. 2001, Weber et al. 2015). These units likely derived from extensional allochthons, formed during the Jurassic opening of the Piemonte-Liguria Ocean in a more distal position than the Cervinia Terrane from which the Salassic nappes originate (see chap. 7).

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