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Nappe meaning
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.
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In the cavity formed below the nappe, a local subpressure beneath the nappe is produced by which air is sucked into the flow.
According to geologist Stefan Schmid, because the Western Alps underwent a metamorphic event in the Cenozoic Era while the Austroalpine peaks underwent an event in the Cretaceous Period, the two areas show distinct differences in nappe formations.
Gustav Steinmann (1906) recognised different classes of orogenic belts, including the Alpine type orogenic belt, typified by a flysch and molasse geometry to the sediments; ophiolite sequences, tholeiitic basalts, and a nappe style fold structure.
The Alps are subdivided by different lithology (rock composition) and nappe structure according to the orogenic events that affected them.