Klippe

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Schematic overview of a thrust system. The hanging wall block is (when it has reasonable proportions) called a nappe. If an erosional hole is created in the nappe that is called a window. A klippe is a solitary outcrop of the nappe in the middle of autochthonous material.
Schematic overview of a thrust system. The hanging wall block is (when it has reasonable proportions) called a nappe. If an erosional hole is created in the nappe that is called a window. A klippe is a solitary outcrop of the nappe in the middle of autochthonous material.

A klippe is a geological feature of thrust fault terranes, where a nappe has thrust exotic strata over an area and been partially removed to leave a form of outlier. Chief Mountain, Montana, is an example of a klippe.

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