Ötztal-Decke

Rappresentazione e statuto

Colore CMYK

N/A

Colore RGB

R: 241 G: 239 B: 237

Rango

falda

Uso

Unità non usata

Status

valido

Nomenclatura

Deutsch

Ötztal-Decke

Français

Nappe de l'Ötztal

Italiano

Falda dell'Ötztal

English

Ötztal Nappe

Varianti storiche

Ötztal Nappe (TK500 / Gouffon et al. 2024)

Paleogeografia e tettonica

Termini generici

• Ötztal

Tipo di origine

• tettonico

Metamorfismo

non metamorfo

Referenze

Revisione

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

p.98: In the area of the Tectonic Map of Switzerland, only the western part of the Ötztal Nappe Complex is present. It consists of two lithologically and tectonically distinct units: the Ötztal Nappe forms the main part, and the smaller, overlying Matsch Nappe occurs in the Vinschgau area within the southern area of the nappe complex (Schmid & Haas 1989, Habler et al. 2009). The Ötztal Nappe consists mainly of polymetamorphic paragneisses with minor orthogneisses and amphibolites. At its western front, here lacking an Alpine metamorphic overprint, it overthrusts the S-charl-Sesvenna Nappe along the Schlinig Thrust, a discrete fault formed under brittle conditions. Froitzheim et al. (1997) claimed extensional overprint during the Late Cretaceous Ducan-Ela phase of what was originally a thrust contact, whereas Stutz & Walter (1983) see only compression, and Schmid & Haas (1989) interpret the extension leading to spectacular domino structures beneath the Schlinig Thrust as a secondary structure of the Ötztal Nappe overthrust. Southeast of Mals, the base of the Ötztal Nappe Complex is no longer a basal thrust fault, but changes to a broad shear zone (Vinschgau Shear Zone, § 8.2.6), due to the eastward increasing grade of metamorphism reaching higher greenschist-facies conditions (Schmid & Haas 1989). The Vinschgau Shear Zone consists mainly of rocks of the Campo Nappe Complex, but in its upper part the occurrence and thickness of the Variscan basement belonging to the Ötztal Nappe Complex cannot be defined, because of the close lithological similarities between the basements of the two nappe complexes in the immediate vicinity of the shear zone. The Ötztal Nappe Complex was thrust towards the WNW over the S-charl-Sesvenna Nappe far beyond the present-day location of the Schlinig Thrust and the Vinschgau Shear Zone, as indicated by isolated klippen of Ötztal basement overlying the S-charl-Sesvenna Nappe and the presence of Ötztal basement as part of the Umbrail-Chavalatsch Slices. Peak temperatures of Cretaceous metamorphism, associated with the top-WNW thrusting of the Ötztal Nappe Complex, were reached around 90 Ma ago (Thöni 1981).