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  1. The Rocca Canavese Thrust Sheets Unit (RCTU) is a subduction-related mélange that represents the eastern-most complex of the Sesia–Lanzo Zone (SLZ), bounded by the Periadriatic (Canavese) Lineament that separa...

    Authors: Manuel Roda, Michele Zucali, Luca Corti, Roberto Visalli, Gaetano Ortolano and Maria Iole Spalla
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2021 114:6
  2. This report summarizes the seismicity in Switzerland and surrounding regions in the years 2017 and 2018. In 2017 and 2018, the Swiss Seismological Service detected and located 1227 and 955 earthquakes in the r...

    Authors: Tobias Diehl, John Clinton, Carlo Cauzzi, Toni Kraft, Philipp Kästli, Nicolas Deichmann, Frédérick Massin, Francesco Grigoli, Irene Molinari, Maren Bӧse, Manuel Hobiger, Florian Haslinger, Donat Fäh and Stefan Wiemer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2021 114:4
  3. Exhumation of basement rocks on the seafloor is a worldwide feature along passive continental margins and (ultra-) slow-spreading environments, documented by dredging, drilling or direct observations by diving...

    Authors: Thierry Decrausaz, Othmar Müntener, Paola Manzotti, Romain Lafay and Carl Spandler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2021 114:3
  4. The rapidly collapsing glacial systems of the Alps produced a large number of melt-water lakes and mires after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Late Glacial period. The Rhone-Aare-glacier system gave rise...

    Authors: Markus Egli, Guido Wiesenberg, Jens Leifeld, Holger Gärtner, Jan Seibert, Claudia Röösli, Vladimir Wingate, Wasja Dollenmeier, Pascal Griffel, Jeannine Suremann, Jan Weber, Mergime Zyberaj and Alessandra Musso
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2021 114:2
  5. Microscale dating of distinct domains in minerals that contain relics of multiple metamorphic events is a key tool to characterize the polyphase evolution of complex metamorphic terranes. Zircon and allanite f...

    Authors: Alice Vho, Daniela Rubatto, Pierre Lanari and Daniele Regis
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:24
  6. A revision of late Palaeozoic tectonics recorded in Tuscany, Calabria and Corsica is here presented. We propose that, in Tuscany, upper Carboniferous-Permian shallow-marine to continental sedimentary basins, c...

    Authors: Giancarlo Molli, Andrea Brogi, Alfredo Caggianelli, Enrico Capezzuoli, Domenico Liotta, Amalia Spina and Ivan Zibra
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:23
  7. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Emmanuelle Ricchi, Edwin Gnos, Daniela Rubatto, Martin John Whitehouse and Thomas Pettke
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:22

    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:15

  8. Many metamorphosed basement complexes in the Alps are polymetamorphic and their origin and geological history may only be deciphered by detailed geochronology on the different members including oceanic element...

    Authors: Franz Neubauer, Yongjiang Liu, Ruihong Chang, Sihua Yuan, Shengyao Yu, Johann Genser, Boran Liu and Qingbin Guan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:21
  9. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Elias D. Kempf, Jörg Hermann, Eric Reusser, Lukas P. Baumgartner and Pierre Lanari
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:20

    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:16

  10. The pre-Alpine history of the Venaco-Ghisoni Unit, a continental unit belonging to the Alpine Corsica (France), was reconstructed on the basis of U–Pb dating of zircon and allanite. Zircon was separated from a...

    Authors: Maria Di Rosa, Federico Farina, Pierre Lanari and Michele Marroni
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:19
  11. The Grobgneis complex, located in the eastern Austroalpine unit of the Eastern Alps, exposes large volumes of pre-Alpine porphyric metagranites, sometimes associated with small gabbroic bodies. To better under...

    Authors: Sihua Yuan, Franz Neubauer, Yongjiang Liu, Johann Genser, Boran Liu, Shengyao Yu, Ruihong Chang and Qingbin Guan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:18
  12. In the Western Alps, different shear zones acting at different depths have been investigated for explaining multistage exhumation of (U)HP units, and several exhumation models have been proposed for explaining...

    Authors: Stefano Ghignone, Gianni Balestro, Marco Gattiglio and Alessandro Borghi
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:17
  13. Metamorphic olivine formed by the reaction of antigorite + brucite is widespread in serpentinites that crop out in glacier-polished outcrops at the Unterer Theodulglacier, Zermatt. Olivine overgrows a relic ma...

    Authors: Elias D. Kempf, Jörg Hermann, Eric Reusser, Lukas P. Baumgartner and Pierre Lanari
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:16

    The Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:20

  14. Ion probe 208Pb/232Th fissure monazite ages from the Argentera External Massif and from the high-pressure units of the Western Alps provide new insights on its Cenozoic tectonic evolution. Hydrothermal monazite c...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Ricchi, Edwin Gnos, Daniela Rubatto, Martin John Whitehouse and Thomas Pettke
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:15

    The Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:22

  15. This study presents geochronological and geochemical data from newly dated Permian granitic orthogneisses associated with the Eclogite-Gneiss unit (EGU) from the southernmost part of the Austroalpine nappe sta...

    Authors: Ruihong Chang, Franz Neubauer, Yongjiang Liu, Johann Genser, Wei Jin, Sihua Yuan, Qingbin Guan, Qianwen Huang and Weimin Li
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:14
  16. The Mont Fort nappe, former uppermost subunit of the Grand St-Bernard nappe system, is an independent tectonic unit with specific structural and stratigraphic characteristics (Middle Penninic, NW Italy and SW ...

    Authors: Adrien Pantet, Jean-Luc Epard and Henri Masson
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:13
  17. The Briançonnais Domain (Western Alps) represented the thinned continental margin facing the Piemonte-Liguria Ocean, later shortened during the Alpine orogeny. In the external part of the External Briançonnais...

    Authors: Michel Ballèvre, Audrey Camonin, Paola Manzotti and Marc Poujol
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:12
  18. A collection of 81 plugs were obtained from the Humilly-2 borehole (France), that reached the Permo-Carboniferous sediments at a depth of 3051 m. Experimental measurements of physical parameters and mineralogi...

    Authors: Mahmoud Hefny, Alba Zappone, Yasin Makhloufi, Antoine de Haller and Andrea Moscariello
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:11
  19. Although sauropodomorph dinosaurs have been known for a long time from the Late Triassic of central Europe, sauropodomorph diversity and faunal composition has remained controversial until today. Here we revie...

    Authors: Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Femke M. Holwerda and Heinz Furrer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:8
  20. Many of the valleys on the southern slope of the Alps are over-deepened, having bedrock valley floors well below sea level. This has typically been attributed to incision that occurred during the Messinian Sal...

    Authors: Sascha Winterberg, Vincenzo Picotti and Sean D. Willett
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:7
  21. Following publication of the original article (Ghandour 2020), it was reported that the location map in Fig. 1 is modified after Speijer, but this was not mentioned in the caption of Fig. 1.

    Authors: Ibrahim Mohamed Ghandour
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:5

    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:3

  22. The maximum temperature (Tmax) and subsequent exhumation reflect the relations between advective and conductive heat transport, which in turn depend on the tectonic evolution. To unravel these relations in an oro...

    Authors: Alfons Berger, Martin Engi, Silja Erne-Schmid, Christoph Glotzbach, Cornelia Spiegel, Rick de Goede and Marco Herwegh
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:4
  23. A geochemical analysis has been conducted on twenty-six sediment samples spanning the P–E boundary interval collected from the Esna Shale in three well-dated stratigraphic sections in west-central Sinai, Egypt...

    Authors: Ibrahim Mohamed Ghandour
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:3

    The Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:5

  24. Dinosaur remains were discovered in the 1860’s in the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, northwestern Switzerland. In the 1920’s, these were identified as a new species of sauropod, Or...

    Authors: Daniela Schwarz, Philip D. Mannion, Oliver Wings and Christian A. Meyer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:2
  25. The Theodul-Glacier-Unit (TGU) is a 100 m thick and 2 km long slab of pre-Alpine schist, gneiss and mafic rocks tectonically emplaced in the eclogite-facies Zermatt-Saas meta-ophiolite nappe (ZSU). The meta-se...

    Authors: Kurt Bucher, Tobias Björn Weisenberger, Sebastian Weber, Oliver Klemm and Fernando Corfu
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2020 113:1
  26. Monazite dating in metapelites is an emerging method to investigate polymetamorphic areas. A protocol for Th–U–Pb dating of monazite by electron microprobe was adopted for a JEOL JXA-8530F. It was applied to t...

    Authors: Bernhard Schulz, Joachim Krause and Robert Zimmermann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:351
  27. The Kimmeridgian-Tithonian carbonate rocks of the Geneva Basin represent potential reservoirs for geothermal energy exploitation. Based on petrographic data, a previous study (Makhloufi et al. 2018) reported thre...

    Authors: Y. Makhloufi and E. Samankassou
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:350
  28. This study focuses on a geological section in the Jura Mountains across the villages of Travers, La Brévine in Switzerland, and Morteau in France. Field mapping was conducted to complement and densify existing...

    Authors: Valentin Rime, Anna Sommaruga, Marc Schori and Jon Mosar
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:349
  29. The Kopet Dagh Mountains in NE Iran result from Cenozoic tectonic inversion of Triassic and Jurassic rifts that formed along the southern margin of the Eurasian continental plate. The Kopet Dagh defines an arc...

    Authors: Jonas B. Ruh, Luis Valero, Lotfollah Aghajari, Elisabet Beamud and Gholamreza Gharabeigli
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:348
  30. Recent excavations from the “Paléontologie A16” project brought to light thousands of dinosaur footprints and numerous turtle remains from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Swiss Jura Mountains). While most fos...

    Authors: Christian Püntener, Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat, Daniel Marty and Géraldine Paratte
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:347
  31. We present in situ rutile and titanite U–Pb geochronology for three samples from the Ur breccia, which forms the boundary between the Malenco unit and the Margna nappe (Eastern Central Alps) near Pass d’Ur in ...

    Authors: Suzanne M. Picazo, Tanya A. Ewing and Othmar Müntener
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:346
  32. An interpretation of the deep structure of the Pieniny Klippen Belt in Poland is presented, utilizing a high-resolution deep seismic reflection survey. The studied profiles reach a depth of around 23 km. The s...

    Authors: Jan Golonka, Kaja Pietsch, Paweł Marzec, Monika Kasperska, Jerzy Dec, Kamil Cichostępski and Stanisław Lasocki
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:345
  33. This paper focuses on the Landquart drainage basin, where we explore geomorphic signals related to the spatial differences in bedrock lithology and differential uplift. We use concentrations of cosmogenic 10Be to...

    Authors: Gabriel Glaus, Romain Delunel, Laura Stutenbecker, Naki Akçar, Marcus Christl and Fritz Schlunegger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:344
  34. This study statistically examines the role of atmospheric blocking as a precursor of major seismic events. Atmospheric blocking archive and earthquake databases for the Middle East region are compiled for 2000...

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar and Friedemann T. Freund
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:343
  35. The provenance of Triassic Vieux Emosson Formation, autochthonous sediments of the Aiguilles Rouges massif (External Alps), was determined from U–Pb ages of detrital zircons. In addition, two samples of Late C...

    Authors: Michael C. Wizevich, Christian A. Meyer, Ulf Linnemann, Andreas Gärtner, Benita-Lisette Sonntag and Mandy Hofmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:342
  36. The lizard and snake fauna from the late middle–late Eocene (MP 16–MP 20) of Dielsdorf, near Zurich, Switzerland, is described comprehensively in this paper. Detailed comparisons of the Dielsdorf material with...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis and Torsten M. Scheyer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:341
  37. Subsurface sedimentary strata in northern Switzerland, such as the Middle Triassic Upper Muschelkalk, are attracting interest as potential reservoirs for CO2 sequestration and for geothermal energy production. Ch...

    Authors: Arthur Adams and Larryn W. Diamond
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:340
  38. We reveal the subsurface bedrock topography and sedimentary succession of one of the deepest glacially-formed basins in the Eastern Alps: the Lienz Basin in the Upper Drau Valley (Tyrol), by means of seismic r...

    Authors: Thomas Burschil, David C. Tanner, Jürgen M. Reitner, Hermann Buness and Gerald Gabriel
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2019 112:339
  39. The recognition of turbidity currents as an important geological agent of sediment transport, sedimentation, and erosion 70 years ago, initiated a bonanza in clastic sedimentology and led to new interpretation...

    Authors: Dominik Letsch
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2018 112:331
  40. The large carnivorous ray-finned fish Birgeria liui Jin, 2001 from the Middle Triassic marine Zhuganpo Member, was previously briefly described based on an incomplete specimen, which lacked the skull and the ante...

    Authors: Peigang Ni, Andrea Tintori, Zuoyu Sun, Cristina Lombardo and Dayong Jiang
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2018 112:329
  41. We describe in detail a unique succession of Lower Pleistocene shallow-water carbonates exposed at the Misery Point sea cliff along the northern shoreline of Mayaguana Island (SE Bahamas). This km-scale outcro...

    Authors: Fabienne Godefroid, Pascal Kindler, Massimo Chiaradia and Gyöngyvér Fischer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2018 112:323
  42. Detrital heavy mineral analysis and sediment chemistry of Lower Miocene sediments of the Lower Austrian Northern Alpine Foreland Basin generally indicate provenance from metapelitic source rocks. The sediments...

    Authors: Wolfgang Knierzinger, Michael Wagreich, Markus Palzer-Khomenko, Susanne Gier, Maria Meszar, Eun Young Lee, Veronika Koukal and Philipp Strauss
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2018 112:312

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