Dent Blanche nappe information

The Dent Blanche nappe or Dent Blanche klippe is a geologic nappe and klippe that crops out in the Pennine Alps. The nappe is tectonostratigraphically...

before the Alpine orogeny) from the Dent Blanche nappe, lying over ophiolites and sedimentary rocks of the Penninic nappes. The mountain's current shape is...

origin and the Dent Blanche nappe (Austroalpine), of African origin. Four paleogeographic domains can be recognized in the Penninic nappes of the Western...

The Sesia unit or Sesia nappe, also called the Sesia-Dent Blanche unit is a tectonic unit or terrane in the Swiss and Italian Alps. The zone crops out...

Weisshorn is the culminating point of the Dent Blanche nappe, a klippe belonging to the Austroalpine nappes. The mountain is composed of gneisses; the...

Switzerland, the Austroalpine nappes have been eroded away except for a few isolated outcrops called the Sesia unit and the Dent Blanche klippe (the Matterhorn...

tectonic plate, which caused the Dents du Midi to protrude from the surface. They represent the frontal hinge of the Morcles nappe, which extends to the south-west...

large elongated dome structure. The overlying limestones of the Helvetic nappes now have a very high dip angle, forming a ridge that appears at the Eiger...

Austroalpine nappes form most of the outcrops in the Eastern Alps, while in the west these nappes are, with the exception of a few places (the Dent Blanche and...

rock with foliations). The Monte Rosa Nappe lies below the Zermatt-Saas zone and is part of the Penninic nappes in the Briançonnais microcontinent zone...

the molasse deposits were overthrust about 10 kilometers by the Helvetic nappes, which caused the deformation in the Subalpine Molasse zone. The Jura mountains...

German fenster) in the Austroalpine nappes where high-grade metamorphic rocks of the underlying Penninic nappes crop out. The structure is caused by...

up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) thick. The zone is part of the Austroalpine nappes. Mesozoic limestones crop out north of the greywacke zone, forming the Northern...

origin. The bottom nappe structure is of continental European origin, above which are stacked marine sediment nappes, topped off by nappes derived from the...

Penninic nappes Austroalpine nappes Southern Alps Formation & rocks Bündner schist flysch molasse Geological structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine...

windows of the eastern Alps and are mapped as the so-called "north Penninic" nappes. After the breakup of Pangaea in the early Mesozoic age, the continents...

exposes penninic units lying below the austroalpine units in the alpine nappe stack. It has a roughly elliptical shape with the long axis striking northwest-southeast...

Penninic nappes Austroalpine nappes Southern Alps Formation & rocks Bündner schist flysch molasse Geological structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine...

Penninic nappes Austroalpine nappes Southern Alps Formation & rocks Bündner schist flysch molasse Geological structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine...

metamorphic rocks of the Penninic nappes from the (external) sedimentary rocks and crystalline basement of the Helvetic nappes. The last are in Zambia often...

part of the Periadriatic Seam that separates the Southern Alps from the nappe stacks of the Central Alps and runs from west to east along the Alpine mountain...

usually divided into three large nappe complexes. From bottom to top these are the Helvetic, Penninic and Austroalpine nappes. East of the dome all three are...

Piz Corvatsch and Piz Palü. Most of the range belongs to the Austroalpine nappes, a tectonic unit whose rocks come from the Apulian plate, a small continent...