Table 1 List of the Alpine tectonic units from the western and eastern Lepontine area represented from north to south in their respective paleogeographic positions, with the distinction between the polycyclic basement (bold letters), the related post-Permian Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary cover (italics) and the ophiolites (bold letters), modified after Geologische and Tektonische Karte der Schweiz 1:500,000 (Spicher 1980; Swiss Geological Survey 2005), Steck et al. (1999, 2001), Berger and Mercolli (2006) and Steck (2008)
