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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.


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Mineralization occurs within a detached portion of the Jotun Nappe Complex, which is a large (100 x 200 km) dominantly Precambrian thrust block that overlies non-detached Precambrian Gneisses and Lower Paleozoic rocks.
Nappe comes to CSGI as part of the recent resolution to expand the Board of Directors from seven to nine members.
com where his team created the award winning travel site from the ground up; Newell Turner, Managing Editor, who was the Style Editor of Conde Nast's House & Garden and Metropolitan Home, where he covered the worlds of design in the United States and Europe; and Susan Nappe, Director of Merchandising, who has held management positions at leading fashion companies such as Dana Buchman Accessories, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan.
 
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