The Giudicarie Line is a major geologic fault zone in the Italian Alps, named for the Giudicarie valleys area. It runs from Meran in the northeast more or less straight along the lower part of the Val di Sole, along the Val Rendena (upper Sarca valley) and then along the Chiese valley to the Lago d'Idro (Idro Lake).
The north part of the line is 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 chain. The Periadriatic Seam branches off to the west at the upper Val di Sole, where it is called the Tonale line. The northeast-oriented Giudicárie line off-sets the (east-west) Periadriatic Seam by 100 kilometers.
The fault zone contains older (Tertiary) mylonites, showing it was a ductile shearzone in that period. These mylonites have been overprinted by brittle thrusting still active today. The northwest dipping fault plane serves as a dextral transform fault as well as a compressive thrust fault.
The GiudicarieLine is a major geologic fault zone in the Italian Alps, named for the Giudicarie valleys area. It runs from Meran in the northeast more...
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Pustertal line: Sillian – Puster Valley – Bruneck Giudicárieline: Meran – Val di Sole Tonale or Insubric line: Tonale Pass – Val Camonica – Valtellina – Biella...
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The Engadine Line is an over 50 kilometres (30 mi) long strike-slip fault in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, which extends into Italy and Austria. It runs...
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structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárieline Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic...
southern part of the Aosta Valley is bounded to the south by the Insubric line. On the other side of this steeply dipping fault zone is the Ivrea zone,...
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structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárieline Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic...
because these nappes crop out mainly in the Eastern Alps (the Alps east of the line Lake Constance - Chur – Lake Como). Because the Austroalpine nappes consist...
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structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárieline Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic...
structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárieline Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic...
other. The breaking up, or rifting, did not take place along one unbroken line; thus, at the southern edge of the European plate the microcontinent Iberia...
structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárieline Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic...
structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárieline Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic...
divide them from the Bergamasque Alps and Prealps; Croce Domini Pass and Giudicarie (north), which divide them from the southern Rhaetian Alps; Adige river...
himself was in favour of an attack on the western part of the front (the "Giudicarie" sector) leading to Brescia. Conrad and Boroević had a dislike for each...
Trentino along with the Ledro Valley, Riva del Garda, Vallagarina, the Giudicarie, Tignale, and Bagolino.[citation needed] Within the principality, small...
valleys are Non Valley, known for its apple production, Sole Valley, Giudicarie, which has been historically connected by Trento and Brescia, Fiemme and...
from Cadria, the commander, Colonel Gianni Metello, reported to the Giudicarie Subsector Command that there was no trace, nor was it known, of any work...
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