Fig. 2

Chronological overview on the georesources-related Swiss institutions discussed in the text. Arrows in dark grey mark institutions still existing today. Relationships between these institutions are shown in Fig. 3. Note that the term Swiss Geological Survey is used here in a wider sense and includes the survey's predecessor institutions LHG and BWG (see Fig. 3 for details). The abbreviations are derived mostly from the German names of the institutions as following: SNG: Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, SCNAT: Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (the SNG became the Swiss Academy of Sciences SANW (Schweizerische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften) in 1988, which was renamed into SCNAT in 2004), SGK: Schweizerische Geologische Kommission, SGTK: Schweizerische Geotechnische Kommission, SGPK: Schweizerische Geophysikalische Kommission, PEK: Petroleum-Experten-Kommission, SGD: Schweizerische Geologische Dokumentationsstelle, LHG: Landeshydrologie und -geologie, FGS: Fachgruppe Georessourcen Schweiz, Study Society: Studiengesellschaft für die Nutzbarmachung der schweizerischen Erzlagerstätten, NEROS: Netzwerk Mineralische Rohstoffe Schweiz