The zone is named after the Italian city of Ivrea. Geologically the Ivrea zone is considered a part of the Southern Alps. Most rocks in the zone are sedimentary...
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Ivrea (Italian: [iˈvrɛːa]; Piedmontese: Ivrèja [iˈʋrɛja]; French: Ivrée; Latin: Eporedia) is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Turin in the...
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The Ivrea Morainic Amphitheatre (sometimes abbreviated as AMI) is a moraine relief of glacial origin located in the Canavese region. Administratively...
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Periadriatic Seam (category Suture zones)
striking boundary between the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps) and Sesia zone (Central Alps) and together with the Ivrea Zone, geometrically it forms backbone...
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mantle material of the Apulian plate crops out in what is called the Ivrea zone. "Geology of the Alps Part 1: General remarks; Austroalpine nappes". Steinmann-Institut...
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large volumes, as in the ultramafic massif at Finero, Italy, within the Ivrea zone. Trace phlogopite, again considered the result of metasomatism, is common...
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commonly abbreviated as Penninic, are one of three nappe stacks and geological zones in which the Alps can be divided. In the western Alps the Penninic nappes...
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Outline of plate tectonics (section Subduction zones)
Mesoproterozoic terrane on the southern margin of the Bangweulu Block in Zambia Ivrea zone – Tectonic terrane in the Italian Alps Lhasa terrane – Fragment of crustal...
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direction with a small component of counter-clockwise rotation. The fault zone that separates the two is the Periadriatic Seam that runs through the Alps...
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Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárie line Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic thrustfront Periadriatic Seam Ivrea zone Lepontin dome Rechnitz...
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The Briançonnais zone is a zone in the Penninic nappes in the Western Alps which preserves continental crust rocks derived from the Briançonnais terrane...
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Wehrlite: less than 5% orthopyroxene Wehrlite makes up part of the transition zone between the peridotite layer and overlying gabbro layer of ophiolites. In...
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of this steeply dipping fault zone is the Ivrea zone, which is geologically part of the Southern Alps. The Sesia zone is (just as the correlated Dent...
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Helvetic (geology) (redirect from Helvetic zone)
The Helvetic zone, Helvetic system or the Helveticum is a geologic subdivision of the Alps. The Helvetic zone crops out mainly in Switzerland, hence the...
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canton. The Grimsel Pass crosses it. The Aarmassif is part of the Helvetic zone of the Alps, which consists of material originally from the European tectonic...
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reaching amphibolite grade in the Orobic Alps and granulite grade in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone. Most of the basement rocks in the Dolomites are phyllite or gneiss...
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Penninic nappes. In the Engadin window, remnants are found in the Pfundser zone and in the Tauern window the "Obere Schieferhülle"; at the northern margin...
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Brodie, he investigated the Ivrea zone in Europe's Southern Alps; the investigations led to important insights into shear zones in the lower part of the...
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following units are distinguished: Fimber zone (including Arosa zone) Tasna zone Champatsch zone Pfundser zone The Engadin window is not the only place...
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Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárie line Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic thrustfront Periadriatic Seam Ivrea zone Lepontin dome Rechnitz...
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the Subalpine Molasse zone along the Alps and the Foreland Molasse zone further into the foreland. In the Foreland Molasse zone the molasse sediments...
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Dent Blanche material lying on top of Penninic ophiolites (Zermatt-Saas zone). Because of this the rock at the top of the Matterhorn came from Africa...
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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...
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was only in 1977 that they were identified as belonging to a single fault zone, reportedly after a suggestion by a Chinese geologist. Sometimes the names...
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tuff is seen as the remains of the accretionary wedge of the subduction zone. The Upper Juvavic nappes originate from the distal (outer, next to the deep-waters...
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greywacke zone is a band of Paleozoic metamorphosed sedimentary rocks that forms an east-west band through the Austrian Alps. The greywacke zone crops out...
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The Bündner schists can be found throughout the Penninic zone of the Alps, often forming zones of high strain between or large infolded synclines (so called...
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underplating were studied along a traverse through the Strona-Ceneri Zone and the Ivrea Verbano Zone. The studies included a thermal modeling method which split...
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Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárie line Greywacke zone Hohe Tauern window Molasse basin Penninic thrustfront Periadriatic Seam Ivrea zone Lepontin dome Rechnitz...
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Free Territory of Trieste (redirect from Trieste Zone B)
city of Trieste with a narrow coastal strip to the northwest (Zone A); the other (Zone B) was formed by a small portion of the north-western part of the...
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