- 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...
- Look up
nappe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
nappe, in geology, is a
sheet of rock
moved more than 2 km
above a
thrust fault.
Nappe may also refer...
-
Orlando Nappe (c. 1931 in
Buenos Aires – 2007) was an
Argentine footballer. He
capped 121
matches (as a
defender and as a midfielder)
scoring 11 goals...
- In
hydraulic engineering, a
nappe is a
sheet or
curtain of
water that
flows over a weir or dam. The
upper and
lower water surface have well-defined characteristics...
-
Austroalpine nappes are a
geological nappe stack in the
European Alps. The Alps
contain three such stacks, of
which the
Austroalpine nappes are structurally...
- The
Helvetic nappes (German:
Helvetische Decken) are a
series of
nappes in the
Northern part of the Alps and part of the
Helvetic zone. They
consist of...
- terrains. The
klippe is the
remnant portion of a
nappe after erosion has
removed connecting portions of the
nappe. This
process results in an
outlier of exotic...
- The
Gotthard nappe (German: Gotthard-Decke, in
older literature called the
Gotthard M****if) is, in the
geology of the Alps a
nappe in the
Helvetic zone...
- The
Penninic nappes or the Pennini****,
commonly abbreviated as Penninic, are one of
three nappe stacks and
geological zones in
which the Alps can be divided...
-
Getic Nappes as well as the
Danubian Units represent units with both a
metamorphic ba****t and a
sedimentary cover,
while the
Severin Nappe includes...
