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  1. New data on the U–Pb geochronology and Hf-isotopic composition of detrital zircons, along with the geochemistry of garnets, chromian spinel and feldspars from Permian and Triassic volcano-sedimentary sequences...

    Authors: Alejandro Beltrán-Triviño, Wilfried Winkler, Albrecht von Quadt and Daniela Gallhofer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:234
  2. The late Middle to early Late Jurassic mélange of the eastern Zlatibor Mountain (Gostilje–Ljubiš–Visoka–Radoševo areas) in the Dinaridic Ophiolite Belt contains a mixture of (A) blocks of Triassic oceanic crus...

    Authors: Hans-Jürgen Gawlick, Sigrid Missoni, Hisashi Suzuki, Milan Sudar, Richard Lein and Divna Jovanović
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:232
  3. Permian–Triassic successions occur throughout the world, but well-exposed transitional sequences are relatively rare. In Croatia, only two localities with continuous transition from Permian to Triassic have be...

    Authors: Karmen Fio Firi, Jasenka Sremac and Igor Vlahović
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:233
  4. An Early Jurassic sauropod dinosaur tracksite in the Lower Jurassic Zhenzhuchong Formation at the Changhebian site in Dazu County, Sichuan, is known to have yielded the trackway of a turning sauropod. A re-stu...

    Authors: Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Daniel Marty, Jianjun He, Xufeng Hu, Hui Dai, Masaki Matsukawa, Guangzhao Peng, Yong Ye, Hendrik Klein, Jianping Zhang, Baoqiao Hao and W. Scott Persons IV
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:229
  5. The Triassic in the “Médianes rigides” Nappe of the Swiss Prealps, belonging to the Briançonnais realm of the Western Alps, consists of a several hundred meters thick carbonate succession. At the localities Wi...

    Authors: Aymon Baud, Pablo Plasencia, Francis Hirsch and Sylvain Richoz
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:226
  6. An innovative multidisciplinary approach was used on quartz–calcite veins that crosscut pebbles of several lithologies from the French South Alpine Foreland Basin to discern the source of detrital sediments. M...

    Authors: Anne-Sabine Grosjean, Véronique Gardien, Michel Dubois, Philippe Boulvais, Rossana Martini, Torsten Vennemann and Bernard Pittet
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:228
  7. Surface exposure dating with a single cosmogenic nuclide relies on the assumption of simple constant exposure. In contrast, the combination of nuclides with different half-lives or production rate depth profil...

    Authors: Christian Wirsig, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Naki Akçar, Maarten Lupker, Kristina Hippe, Lukas Wacker, Christof Vockenhuber and Christian Schlüchter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:227
  8. Detailed field mapping reveals that the Sesia Zone is subdivided into two complexes with the Barmet Shear Zone (BSZ) outlining the tectonic contact between them. This greenschist-facies contact reflects a meta...

    Authors: Francesco Giuntoli and Martin Engi
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:225
  9. Uniform geological datasets are a prerequisite for geological GIS analyses. Although the Geological Atlas of Switzerland 1:25,000 aims to supply spatial geological information nationwide, little effort has bee...

    Authors: Stefan Strasky, Alain Morard and Andreas Möri
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:221
  10. During the late Early Cretaceous, the Jura domain was occupied by a photozoan carbonate platform, summarised in the Vallorbe Formation. From the earliest Aptian to the Late Cenomanian, open marine heterozoan a...

    Authors: Antoine Pictet, Michel Delamette and Bertrand Matrion
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:220
  11. A. Penck’s and E. Brückner’s “classical” subdivision of Quaternary deposits, developed in the Alpine foreland of southern Germany, was used for a long time as a basis for the classification of Quaternary depos...

    Authors: Hans Rudolf Graf and Reto Burkhalter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:222
  12. In the context of the harmonisation of the Swiss lithostratigraphic scheme, the Late Ladinian to Early Norian Bänkerjoch Formation and the Norian to Rhaetian Klettgau Formation of northern Switzerland are form...

    Authors: Peter Jordan, Johannes S. Pietsch, Hansruedi Bläsi, Heinz Furrer, Nicole Kündig, Nathan Looser, Andreas Wetzel and Gaudenz Deplazes
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:218
  13. We performed a 3D seismic tomography study of the northwest Alborz region in Iran, by inversion of P-wave arrival times of nearly 250 local earthquakes recorded at 13 permanent stations between 2006 and 2010. ...

    Authors: M. Rezaeifar, E. Kissling, Z. H. Shomali and M. Shahpasand-Zadeh
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:219
  14. The Palaeogene lithostratigraphic units of the Swiss Helvetic Alps have been revised and in parts newly defined in order to harmonise the existing nomenclature. The resulting new classification scheme of the H...

    Authors: Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller, Oliver Kempf and Hanspeter Funk
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:217
  15. The sediments of late Anisian and Ladinian age in northern Switzerland, which were formerly named Upper Muschelkalk and Lower Keuper, mostly consist of carbonates. They accumulated in a transitional area betwe...

    Authors: Johannes S. Pietsch, Andreas Wetzel and Peter Jordan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:214
  16. This publication represents the first comprehensive review of the currently known palaeoichthyological diversity of the Hermanowa locality (Poland). Specimens were collected from a single outcrop belonging to ...

    Authors: Tomáš Přikryl, Iwona Kania and Wiesław Krzemiński
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:216
  17. In the course of the HARMOS project of the Swiss Geological Survey, the lithostratigraphic subdivisions of the Cretaceous sedimentary rocks outcropping in the Swiss Jura Mountains were revisited. New formation...

    Authors: André Strasser, Jean Charollais, Marc André Conrad, Bernard Clavel, Antoine Pictet and Bruno Mastrangelo
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:215
  18. Exhumed faults hosting hydrothermal systems provide direct insight into relationships between faulting and fluid flow, which in turn are valuable for making hydrogeological predictions in blind settings. The G...

    Authors: Thomas M. Belgrano, Marco Herwegh and Alfons Berger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:212
  19. We here discuss the Early Oligocene–Middle Miocene evolution of the Epiligurian wedge-top basin system cropping out in the middle Enza Valley (Northern Apennines, Italy). Newly acquired stratigraphic and struc...

    Authors: Alberto Piazza, Andrea Artoni and Kei Ogata
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:211
  20. In the context of the harmonisation of the Swiss stratigraphic scheme (HARMOS project), the stratigraphic nomenclature of the Triassic sedimentary succession of northern Switzerland has been reorganised to six...

    Authors: Peter Jordan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:209
  21. Laophis crotaloides was described by Richard Owen as a new and very large fossil viperid snake species from Greece. The type material is apparently lost and the taxon was mostly neglected...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis, Zbigniew Szyndlar, Benjamin P. Kear and Massimo Delfino
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:210
  22. The Roisan zone is a metamorphic cover unit exposed along the ductile shear zone between the Dent Blanche s.s. and Mont Mary-Cervino Upper Austroalpine outliers, Aosta Valley, north-western Italian Alps. It is...

    Authors: Gloria Ciarapica, Leonsevero Passeri, Franco Bonetto and Giorgio Vittorio Dal Piaz
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:207
  23. The St. Gallen Fault Zone (SFZ) is a system of major NNE–SSW striking normal faults within the North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB), just west of the city of St. Gallen. It used to be only roughly known from 2D ...

    Authors: Stefan Heuberger, Philippe Roth, Olivier Zingg, Henry Naef and Beat P. Meier
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2016 109:208
  24. Excavations of Middle Triassic strata at Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland–Italy) have famously recovered a range of reptiles whose affinities, morphology and preservation have been extensively described. The loc...

    Authors: Susan R. Beardmore and Heinz Furrer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 109:194
  25. Sparse isolated pebbles and cobbles of extraformational lithologies are occasionally found in fine-grained deep-water sediments. In the Middle and Upper Liassic deep-water marly limestones and marlstones of Ro...

    Authors: Daniel Bernoulli and Peter Ulmer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 109:205
  26. During 2014, 817 earthquakes and 180 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. An additional 160 earthquakes with ML ≤ 1.0 were located using supplementary analysis techniques. Th...

    Authors: Tobias Diehl, Nicolas Deichmann, John Clinton, Philipp Kästli, Carlo Cauzzi, Toni Kraft, Yannik Behr, Benjamin Edwards, Aurélie Guilhem, Edith Korger, Manuel Hobiger, Florian Haslinger, Donat Fäh and Stefan Wiemer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:204
  27. The foraminiferal contents and geochemistry of 199 samples collected from three surface sections in the southern Galala Sub-basin, North Eastern Desert of Egypt, have been studied in detail. From south to nort...

    Authors: Mohamed Youssef and Mahmoud Hefny
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:201
  28. Co-seismic volumetric changes are often interpreted as tensile fracturing in response to fluid injection during geothermal reservoir stimulation. Such volumetric changes manifest themselves as isotropic moment...

    Authors: Aurélie Guilhem and Fabian Walter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:197
  29. The existence of an orogenic arc in the Variscan belt of Central Iberia is traced from its first recognition by the Swiss geologist, Rudolf Staub, at the XIV International Geological Congress (Madrid 1926), to...

    Authors: José R. Martínez Catalán, Domingo G. A. M. Aerden and Jordi Carreras
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:202
  30. The study of the neotectonic activity in the Jura Mountains (northwestern most belt of the European Alps) represents a challenge in the application of quantitative geomorphology to extract landscape metrics an...

    Authors: Mickael Rabin, Christian Sue, Pierre G. Valla, Jean-Daniel Champagnac, Nicolas Carry, Vincent Bichet, Urs Eichenberger and Jacques Mudry
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:200
  31. Combining field observations, cross-section area balancing techniques and kinematic forward modelling, we present new insights into the evolution of the Jura fold-and-thrust belt in the Chasseral area between ...

    Authors: Marc Schori, Jon Mosar and Guido Schreurs
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:196
  32. To reconstruct the timing of Alpine glacier advances onto the Jura Mountains, we sampled 17 Alpine erratic boulders within and beyond the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum) extent of the Valais Glacier along three tra...

    Authors: Angela Graf, Naki Akçar, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Stefan Strasky, Peter W. Kubik, Marcus Christl, Martin Burkhard, Rainer Wieler and Christian Schlüchter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:195
  33. The Triassic–Jurassic (T–J) boundary coincides with one of the five biggest mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic. This event has been extensively studied in the eastern and central Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA...

    Authors: Roland Felber, Helmut J. Weissert, Heinz Furrer and Tomaso R. R. Bontognali
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:192
  34. This study combines structural and thermochronological analysis with published geochronological data to evaluate the tectonic evolution of the ductile Main Mylonite Zone and the adjacent brittle Ragga–Teuchl f...

    Authors: Andreas Wölfler, Wolfgang Frisch, Harald Fritz, Martin Danišik and Anke Wölfler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:193
  35. Thermal maturity analyses provide a valid basis to reconstruct the burial and temperature history of sedimentary rocks. In combination with computer based modeling it is possible to quantify former overburden ...

    Authors: Arne Grobe, Ralf Littke, Victoria Sachse and Detlev Leythaeuser
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:191
  36. A detailed facies analysis and interpretation of the evolution of depositional environments along a north–south transect of the Late Oxfordian—Early Kimmeridgian French Jura carbonate platform highlights hiera...

    Authors: Nicolas Olivier, Elsa Cariou and Pierre Hantzpergue
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:189
  37. Natural analogues have been previously used to support the safety case for direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel, but the focus of such work was very dependent on the key barriers of specific national disposal...

    Authors: Ian G. McKinley, Hideki Kawamura, Susie M. L. Hardie, Elizaveta Klein and Tara M. Beattie
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:186
  38. The Silltal Fault is the northern brittle continuation of the Brenner Fault Zone, marked by a narrow zone of cataclasis and, in three locations, clay-rich fault gouges. The clay mineral composition of these go...

    Authors: Neil Mancktelow, Horst Zwingmann, Marion Campani, Bernhard Fügenschuh and Andreas Mulch
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:179
  39. The practice of utilising natural analogues in assessing the long-term behaviour of various components of geological repositories for radioactive waste is already well established in most disposal programmes. ...

    Authors: Heini M. Reijonen and W. Russell Alexander
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:185
  40. A report entitled “complementary considerations” has recently been published by Posiva, the organization implementing the spent fuel disposal programme in Finland. It is part of the documentation (called TURVA...

    Authors: Heini M. Reijonen, W. Russell Alexander, Nuria Marcos and Anne Lehtinen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:181
  41. In this study, the status of natural analogue studies in Korea is briefly summarized and applicability of existing natural analogue information to the Korean safety case has been evaluated. To enable effective...

    Authors: Min Hoon Baik, Tae-Jin Park, In Young Kim, Jongtae Jeong and Kyung Woo Choi
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:182
  42. The Penninic nappe stack in the Central and Western Alps was formed in a collision zone environment after the closure of the Penninic oceans in the Paleogene. This study reports Lu–Hf garnet-whole rock ages of...

    Authors: Sebastian Weber, Sascha Sandmann, Irena Miladinova, Raúl O. C. Fonseca, Nikolaus Froitzheim, Carsten Münker and Kurt Bucher
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2015 108:180

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