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Meaning of "nappe"
nappe (noun) - a term commonly used in geology to describe a large sheet of rock that has moved or slid during tectonic processes. Nappes are important in understanding the structure of the Earth's crust
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- The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
- Either of the two parts of a double cone.
- A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata.
- Geological nappe whose underside is not in contact with the overflow structure and is at ambient atmospheric pressure.
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In geology a nappe is a complex recumbent fold system.
You have not yet reached nappe.
The term nappe is somewhat misleading.
Includes several nappe features.
The nappe was subsequently refolded into tight northeast verging folds.
The klippe is the isolated block of the nappe overlying autochthonous material.
The nappe break element may be an a reinforced elastomeric nappe breaker.
Either half of a double cone on one side of the apex is called a nappe.
Nappe flow has pockets of air at each step whereas skimming flow does not.
These data suggest that the thermal peak postdate nappe emplacement.
Nappe overthrusting and deformation of the foreland followed before the olistostrome sediments had lithified.
Formation of a nappe.
Helvetic zone nappe geology of the Alps.
Hydraulic engineers distinguish these two water structures in characterizing and calculating the formation of a nappe.
The discussion points out the problems in the nappe model that prevailed.
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Of the three nappe stacks the Penninic nappes have the highest metamorphic grade.
Their inverted metamorphism is usually explained by a single Devonian nappe stacking event.
The mountain lies within the Dukla Nappe which is further faulted into smaller thrust sheets.
Whole mountain range is a Miocene horst that modifies older Mesozoic nappe structure.
The Fatric nappe is represented by the Zliechov succession.
The Großalmerode Graben Zone in the north lies on a narrow muschelkalk nappe.
The Gotthard nappe crops out in an elongated strip through the Central Alps.
Dent Blanche nappe.
So you get Nappe structures now throughout the Alps but the Nappes are more.
The Ordovician Stanbridge Group of Quebec has long been considered an allochthonous nappe.
The Austroalpine nappes are a geological nappe stack in the European Alps.
In the area of the Gehrenspitze the Inn Valley Nappe pushes against the Wetterstein mass.
The Lechtal Nappe is the only prominent nappe in the Eastern Alps.
If material is transported along a décollement greater than 2 km, it may be considered a nappe.
A nappe whose root area is unknown, is called a rootless nappe.
The massif is almost entirely composed of gneiss from the Siviez-Mischabel nappe.
He was a proponent of the nappe concept and of tectonics as a mountain-building force.
Thus, the serpentine sole represents a major décollement at the base of the nappe.
These flexible nappe breakers may be manufactured from reinforced elastomers, for example.
For a given stepped spillway geometry, the nappe flows are observed for small discharges.
In the Cadí nappe archeocyathid-bearing limestones occur during the lower Cambrian.
The structure is caused by a large dome-like antiform in the nappe stacks of the Alps.
The " root area " is an area where the nappe is completely separated from its substratum.
The lobes ( or scales ) demark the western edge of the nappe.
The socorro-guaxupé nappe represents this active margin and salb is one of those bodies.
The shape of bowl 8 is compatible with the nappe angle a 1 selected.
Figure 106 shows a nappe aeration apparatus whose flex is provided by an impact flexure element.
A continuity G 0 is only a location constraint ; a continuity or order 1 is a tangent plane nappe constraint.
Direct-injection engine with small nappe angle and processes allowing such an engine to be used.
Nappe Motifs placés There are 9 products.
Sur l'existence d'une grande nappe de recouvrement dans les Carpathes meridionales.
These rocks correspond, respectively, to units, campos gerais complex, três pontas-varginha nappe and socorro-guaxupé nappe.
Figure 8 shows part of the Morcles Nappe as seen from the Rhône valley in Switzerland.
This play is created in 1977, date on which she founds Cie Tire pas la Nappe.
In the south, the Simano and Adula nappes lie on top of the Gotthard nappe.
