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nappe

In geology, a large body or sheet of rock that has been moved by faulting or folding a distance of about 1 mi (1.5 km) or more from its original position. A nappe may be the hanging wall of a low-angle thrust fault (a fracture in the rocks of the Earth's crust caused by contraction), or it may be a large recumbent fold (i.e., an undulation in the stratified rocks that have an essentially horizontal axial plane); both processes position older rocks over younger rocks.


nappe [nap]
(geology)
A sheetlike, allochthonous rock unit that is formed by thrust faulting or recumbent folding or both.
(mathematics)
One of the two parts of a conical surface defined by the vertex.


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