- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The
Austroalpine nappes are a
geological nappe stack system in the
European Alps. They
structurally on top of the
Penninic (meaning they were
thrust over...
- Each of the two
halves of a
double cone
split at the apex is
called a
nappe.
Depending on the author, the base may be
restricted to a circle, any one-dimensional...
- 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...
- 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...
- by
movement along the
thrust is
called a
nappe. When
erosion or
normal faulting produces a hole in the
nappe where the
underlying autochthonous (i.e....
