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28 result(s) within Volume 115 of Swiss Journal of Geosciences

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  1. We present a series of analogue models inspired by the geology of the Zürcher Weinland region in the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin of Switzerland to explore the influence of rheological weak, i.e. (partially)...

    Authors: Frank Zwaan, Guido Schreurs, Herfried Madritsch and Marco Herwegh
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:26
  2. In the area of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Hainburg Mountains, Lower Austria) a Middle Miocene transgression over Mesozoic basement was explored in the course of the Danube power plant project “Hainburg”. The Mesoz...

    Authors: Werner E. Piller, Gerald Auer, Hugo Graber and Martin Gross
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:25
  3. The Flims rock avalanche has a gliding surface that cuts down section in a limestone sequence and does not follow a weak horizon. The gliding surface is parallel to bedding and/or to the penetrative Alpine fol...

    Authors: O. Adrian Pfiffner
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:24
  4. The Variscan basement of the Aiguilles-Rouges massif (Western Alps) exposes the Servoz syncline which consists of a metavolcano-sedimentary sequence composed of (i) a volcanic unit of unknown age and origin, (...

    Authors: Jonas Vanardois, Abdeltif Lahfid, Pierre Trap, Brice Lacroix, Françoise Roger, Laurent Guillou-Frottier, Didier Marquer, Jean-Louis Paquette and Jérémie Melleton
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:23
  5. The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a 57 km long railway tunnel, constructed in the Central Alps in Switzerland and extending mainly North–South across numerous geological units. We acquired 80 new gravity data ...

    Authors: M. Scarponi, G. Hetényi, L. Baron and U. Marti
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:22
  6. In the Alpstein massif of north-eastern Switzerland, a complete succession of uppermost Hauterivian to uppermost Barremian condensed hemipelagic sediments crops out. This succession is known as Tierwis Formati...

    Authors: Antoine Pictet, Peter Kürsteiner, Karl Tschanz and Amane Tajika
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:21
  7. The Variscan orogeny was responsible for the formation of a significant volume of igneous basement throughout present-day Europe. Detailed understanding of these rocks has, however, been obfuscated by signific...

    Authors: Mélissa Ruiz, Urs Schaltegger, Sean P. Gaynor, Massimo Chiaradia, Jürgen Abrecht, Christian Gisler, Federico Giovanoli and Michael Wiederkehr
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:20
  8. Here we describe the structure, the high-pressure, low-temperature (HP-LT) metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Briançonnais distal margin units from the south Western Alps. The studied area extends sout...

    Authors: André Michard, Stefan M. Schmid, Abdeltif Lahfid, Michel Ballèvre, Paola Manzotti, Christian Chopin, Salvatore Iaccarino and Davide Dana
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:19
  9. The gleno-acetabular distance DGA, a conventional proxy for the size of a quadrupedal trackmaker, is often estimated as the distance GA between the midpoint between a left and right pair of pes tracks and the mid...

    Authors: Kent A. Stevens, Scott Ernst and Daniel Marty
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:18
  10. From latest Hauterivian to latest Barremian, the Urgonian facies of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains are subdivided into three formations and five members: new Saars Formation (= former “Gorges de l’Orbe Fo...

    Authors: Pierre‑Olivier Mojon and Eric De Kaenel
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:17
  11. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is currently undertaking a feasibility study to build the next-generation particle accelerator, named the Future Circular Collider (FCC), hosted in a 90–10...

    Authors: Maximilian Haas, Davide Carraro, Dario Ventra, Michael Plötze, Antoine De Haller and Andrea Moscariello
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:16
  12. An incomplete postcranial skeleton of a snake from the middle Miocene of the Swiss Molasse in Käpfnach mine, near Zurich, Switzerland, is described in this paper. The skeleton is rather crushed and resting on ...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis and Torsten M. Scheyer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:15
  13. Petrographic observations combined with mineral compositional analyses constrain the phase relations of prograde metamorphosed serpentinites in the Bergell contact aureole (Italy). In a 1500 m profile perpendi...

    Authors: Elias D. Kempf, Jörg Hermann and James A. D. Connolly
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:14
  14. Mass movements constitute major natural hazards in the Alpine realm. When triggered on slopes adjacent to lakes, these mass movements can generate tsunami-like waves that may cause additional damage along the ...

    Authors: Katrina Kremer, Stefano C. Fabbri, Frederic M. Evers, Nora Schweizer and Stefanie B. Wirth
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:13
  15. In this paper, we document that glaciofluvial gravel sequences and glacial till deposits that are exposed in the Müntschemier and Finsterhennen gravel pits (Swiss Plateau west of Bern) record three glacial adv...

    Authors: Jonathan Pfander, Fritz Schlunegger, Elena Serra, Natacha Gribenski, Philippos Garefalakis and Naki Akçar
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:12
  16. Cut-and-fill sequences are the result of climatically or tectonically induced alternating aggradation and incision phases of a fluvial system. A recently established cosmogenic nuclide chronology of the Cover ...

    Authors: Catharina Dieleman, Marcus Christl, Christof Vockenhuber, Philip Gautschi and Naki Akçar
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:11
  17. Geological surveys have a wide range of tasks for their countries: to map the geology and to assess the georesources potential for metallic ores, industrial minerals, geothermal energy, fossil fuels, aggregate...

    Authors: S. Heuberger, L. Nibourel, D. Fulda and M. G. C. Vernooij
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:10
  18. Drilling of the Gotthard Rail Base Tunnel through the Central Alps from 2005 to 2010 opened up fractured basement units and frequent water inflows provided access to the major fluid-rock interactions processes...

    Authors: Ingrid Stober, Federico Giovanoli, Victoria Wiebe and Kurt Bucher
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:9
  19. The unlined Bedretto tunnel crosses large parts of the pre-Triassic basement of the Gotthard massif (Central Alps), giving the possibility to study late-Variscan plutonic rocks (Rotondo granite) and their Cale...

    Authors: Markus Rast, Andrea Galli, Jonas B. Ruh, Marcel Guillong and Claudio Madonna
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:8
  20. The modern, over 250-m-deep basin of Lake Constance represents the underfilled northern part of an over 400-m-deep, glacially overdeepened trough, which reaches well into the Alps at its southern end. The over...

    Authors: Sebastian Schaller, Michael E. Böttcher, Marius W. Buechi, Laura S. Epp, Stefano C. Fabbri, Natacha Gribenski, Ulrich Harms, Sebastian Krastel, Alina Liebezeit, Katja Lindhorst, Hanna Marxen, Ulli Raschke, David Schleheck, Iris Schmiedinger, Antje Schwalb, Hendrik Vogel…
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:7
  21. A small, smooth-shelled rhynchonellid brachiopod, Erymnaria Cooper, 1959 was discovered in a previously unknown locality in the so-called Brülisau Schuppenzone (imbricate zone) of the South Helvetic region of nor...

    Authors: Heinz Sulser, Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller, Thomas Bolliger, Peter Kürsteiner and Karl Tschanz
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:6
  22. Western Anatolia is one of the most seismically active regions worldwide. To date, the paleoseismic history of many major faults, in terms of recurrence intervals of destructive earthquakes, their magnitude, d...

    Authors: Nasim Mozafari, Çağlar Özkaymak, Ökmen Sümer, Dmitry Tikhomirov, Bora Uzel, Serdar Yeşilyurt, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Christof Vockenhuber, Hasan Sözbilir and Naki Akçar
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:5
  23. We make use of own geological mapping, interpretations of seismic reflection profiles and deep geophysical data to build a lithospheric-scale cross-section across the European Western Southern Alps (Varese are...

    Authors: Emanuele Scaramuzzo, Franz A. Livio, Pablo Granado, Andrea Di Capua and Raffaele Bitonte
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:4
  24. Hydrogeological properties of fluid reservoirs in the brittle continental crust at 5 km have been deduced from hydraulic and chemical data provided by the Deep Heat Mining well Basel-1 in the south of the Uppe...

    Authors: Ingrid Stober, Florentin Ladner, Moritz Hofer and Kurt Bucher
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:3
  25. The interpretation of seismotectonic processes within the uppermost few kilometers of the Earth’s crust has proven challenging due to the often significant uncertainties in hypocenter locations and focal mecha...

    Authors: Federica Lanza, Tobias Diehl, Nicholas Deichmann, Toni Kraft, Christophe Nussbaum, Senecio Schefer and Stefan Wiemer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2022 115:2

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