Your voice range, as typically defined, is a combination of your literal range (i.e. what range of pitches you can reasonably sing) and your comfortable tessitura (i.e. what parts of your range you can use in a sustained way throughout a piece or larger work without tiring yourself out or damaging your voice). Most of us have notes on the edges of our range that we can sing, but having a song stay in that range wouldn't be good for our voices. The types of sounds that come out ("thick", "light", "belting", etc. -- but not "I can only hit these notes in falsetto") aren't really relevant to your vocal range in terms of alto, soprano, mezzo.
Fach is almost exclusively used for opera, but includes qualifications about vocal style, power, etc. This might be more what you're getting at when you're talking about altos with "thick" sounds in their lower ranges, but it has no impact on whether you're an alto, mezzo, or soprano. I don't know a whole lot about fach, but there appears to be a good deal of info about it on wikipedia...
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Fach is almost exclusively used for opera, but includes qualifications about vocal style, power, etc. This might be more what you're getting at when you're talking about altos with "thick" sounds in their lower ranges, but it has no impact on whether you're an alto, mezzo, or soprano. I don't know a whole lot about fach, but there appears to be a good deal of info about it on wikipedia...
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