Abstract Whiteschists from the Monte Rosa Nappe were examined in field as well with petrographic, geochemical, and isotopic methods to constrain controversial origin of these rocks their Alpine metamorphic context. occur ellipsoidal-shaped, decametric-sized bodies, within a Permian metagranite, consist mainly chloritoid, talc, phengite, quartz. The transition whiteschist metagranite is marked b...