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klippe Geol.|ˈklɪpə|
Also Klippe. Pl. klippes, ‖ -en.
[a. G. klippe partly or totally submerged rock.]
A part of a nappe which has become detached from its parent mass by sliding or by erosion of intervening parts.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 333/2 These [structures], called Klippen, are abrupt pyramidal masses, the beds in the upper part being not only older than those in the lower, but also ‘contorted, fractured, crushed, and mixed up’, while the newer are comparatively undisturbed. 1912Smithsonian Misc. Coll. LVI. No. 31. 12 It is well known that some of these isolated masses, those of the Klippes, are ‘exotic’; that is to say, no strata of the same facies have ever been found in place. 1942O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xv. 332 Klippen are peculiar in that, unlike the outliers which persist beyond the main front of a weathering escarpment, and which have younger beds capping older strata, they have older beds over younger beds. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. x. 273 Chief Mountain, Montana, is a well-known example of a klippe, in which an isolated mass of Pre-Cambrian rock rests upon Cretaceous beds. 1969M. G. Rutten Geol. W. Europe xi. 239 Further southwest, these isolated klippen..merge into a continuous nappe. |