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    In geology, a nappe or thrust sheet is a large sheetlike body of rock that has been moved more than 2 km (1.2 mi) or 5 km (3.1 mi) above a thrust fault...
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    Austroalpine nappes are a geological nappe stack in the European Alps. The Alps contain three such stacks, of which the Austroalpine nappes are structurally...
    5 KB (618 words) - 08:45, 2 June 2022
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    The Giessen nappe (German: Gießener Decke) is a tectonic nappe in the southeastern part of the Rhenish Massif in western Germany. The nappe is an "alien"...
    5 KB (560 words) - 09:13, 2 June 2022
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    sedimentary cover rocks of the Tethys sea. In the south, the Simano and Adula nappes lie on top of the Gotthard nappe. The Gotthard nappe crops out in...
    4 KB (487 words) - 11:05, 3 July 2023
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    Getic Nappes as well as the Danubian Units represent units with both a metamorphic basement and a sedimentary cover, while the Severin Nappe includes...
    10 KB (934 words) - 07:32, 12 August 2024
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    the subduction of the Baltican continental margin and thrusting of the nappes over the Baltican basement, the orogen began to collapse in the Early Devonian...
    20 KB (2,080 words) - 04:24, 27 December 2023
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    nappe is represented by the Zliechov succession. The Hronic nappe is preserved in outlayers, e.g. in the Tematín or Beckov Castle rocks. Both cover nappes...
    5 KB (524 words) - 11:57, 8 July 2022
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    the Tatric cover. There are two so-called Subtatric nappes: the lower called the Kížna nappe (or the Fatric) and the upper called Choč nappe (or the Hronic)...
    38 KB (4,618 words) - 12:04, 29 June 2024
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    Geology of the Alps (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from September 2009)
    Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The pressure formed great recumbent folds, or nappes, that rose out of what had been the Alpine Tethys and pushed northward,...
    29 KB (3,650 words) - 15:24, 5 March 2024
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    Alpine orogeny) from the Dent Blanche nappe, lying over ophiolites and sedimentary rocks of the Penninic nappes. The mountain's current shape is the result...
    101 KB (12,203 words) - 20:07, 22 August 2024
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    alternate plate collisions and rifting. The mantle-derived Eocene Peridotite Nappe is the most significant and widespread unit (labelled as "Ophiolites" and...
    59 KB (6,217 words) - 21:29, 25 August 2024
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    rock that was uplifted from major thrust fault activity in the form of a nappe. The magnesium and iron rich rock was forced upwards from the tectonic collision...
    6 KB (661 words) - 18:59, 22 September 2023
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    TBA Liko, Roy, and Dot start their journey to Fridge Town and reach Mt. Nappé. After encountering wild Pokémon in the area, they find a cabin to stay...
    107 KB (1,590 words) - 02:28, 27 August 2024
  • the Falknis Nappe, north of the village of Triesen and composed of Jurassic marine sediments. The Lechtal Nappe is the only prominent nappe in the Eastern...
    2 KB (303 words) - 09:02, 14 July 2024
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    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...
    26 KB (2,934 words) - 18:12, 13 July 2024
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    crystalline basement and its autochthonous sedimentary cover, over which the Subtatric nappes (Fatric and Hronic) were thrust. The name core mountains...
    8 KB (800 words) - 09:39, 15 June 2023
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    Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Briançonnais zone of the Penninic nappes of the Alps, and the portion of Morocco north of the High Atlas Mountains...
    14 KB (1,564 words) - 14:58, 9 August 2024
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    origin. The bottom nappe structure is of continental European origin, above which are stacked marine sediment nappes, topped off by nappes derived from the...
    104 KB (12,127 words) - 12:38, 22 August 2024
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    Cretaceous (Albian) deposits. Two largescale nappe units are overlying the basement and its sedimentary cover. The lower Fatric Unit composed of Lower Triassic...
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  • Thessaly, Attica and Cyclades with an overlying Paleozoic and Mesozoic nappe. The schist-sandstone, Permian limestone, brecciated limestone and Triassic...
    8 KB (1,052 words) - 21:00, 21 August 2024
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