Tectonic inheritance controls nappe detachment, transport and stacking in the Helvetic nappe system, Switzerland: insights from thermomechanical simulations

Kiss, Dániel; Duretz, Thibault; Schmalholz, Stefan Markus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-287-2020

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-287-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-287-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

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04 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2020

Tectonic inheritance controls nappe detachment, transport and stacking in the Helvetic nappe system, Switzerland: insights from thermomechanical simulations

Dániel Kiss, Thibault Duretz, and Stefan Markus Schmalholz

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RC1: 'review se-2019-130', Luca Dal Zilio, 14 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to referee comments', Dániel Kiss, 10 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review of: Kiss et al., Towards a nappe theory: ...', Patrice Rey, 25 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to referee comments', Dániel Kiss, 10 Jan 2020

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AR by Dániel Kiss on behalf of the Authors (28 Jan 2020)

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In this paper, we investigate the physical mechanisms of tectonic nappe formation by high-resolution numerical modeling. Tectonic nappes are key structural features of many mountain chains which are packets of rocks displaced, sometimes even up to 100 km, from their original position. However, the physical mechanisms involved are not fully understood. We solve numerical equations of fluid and solid dynamics to improve our knowledge. The results are compared with data from the Helvetic Alps.