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  1. Transport and retardation parameters of radionuclides, which are needed to perform a safety analysis for a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in a compacted claystone such as Opalinus Clay, must ...

    Authors: Olivier X. Leupin, Luc R. Van Loon, Thomas Gimmi, Paul Wersin and Josep M. Soler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:254
  2. The deep borehole (DB) experiment gave the opportunity to acquire hydraulic parameters in a hydraulically undisturbed zone of the Opalinus Clay at the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland). Three methods we...

    Authors: Catherine Yu, Jean-Michel Matray, Julio Gonçalvès, David Jaeggi, Werner Gräsle, Klaus Wieczorek, Tobias Vogt and Erik Sykes
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:257
  3. A 250 m-deep inclined well, the Mont Terri BDB-1, was drilled through the Jurassic Opalinus Clay and its bounding formations at the Mont Terri rock laboratory (NW Switzerland). For the first time, a continuous...

    Authors: Bernhard Hostettler, Achim G. Reisdorf, David Jaeggi, Gaudenz Deplazes, Hansruedi Bläsi, Alain Morard, Susanne Feist-Burkhardt, Anton Waltschew, Volker Dietze and Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:250
  4. At the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland), an in situ experiment is being carried out to examine the fate of nitrate leaching from nitrate-containing bituminized radioactive waste, in a clay host rock fo...

    Authors: Nele Bleyen, Steven Smets, Joe Small, Hugo Moors, Natalie Leys, Achim Albrecht, Pierre De Cannière, Bernhard Schwyn, Charles Wittebroodt and Elie Valcke
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:256
  5. Microbiological studies related to the geological disposal of radioactive waste have been conducted at the Mont Terri rock laboratory in Opalinus Clay, a potential host rock for a deep geologic repository, sin...

    Authors: Olivier X. Leupin, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Alexandre Bagnoud, Hugo Moors, Natalie Leys, Katinka Wouters and Simcha Stroes-Gascoyne
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:255
  6. Two experiments have been installed at Mont Terri in 2004 and 2009 that allowed gas circulation within a borehole at a pressure between 1 and 2 bar. These experiments made it possible to observe the natural ga...

    Authors: Agnès Vinsot, C. Anthony J. Appelo, Mélanie Lundy, Stefan Wechner, Cristelle Cailteau-Fischbach, Philippe de Donato, Jacques Pironon, Yanick Lettry, Catherine Lerouge and Pierre De Cannière
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:244
  7. We present several mini-seismic methods developed and applied in recent years in the Mont Terri rock laboratory. All these applications aimed at correlating and interpreting seismically derived parameters with...

    Authors: Kristof Schuster, Florian Amann, Salina Yong, Paul Bossart and Peter Connolly
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:241
  8. Carbon steel is widely considered as a candidate material for the construction of spent fuel and high-level waste disposal canisters. In order to investigate corrosion processes representative of the long term...

    Authors: Sophia Necib, Nikitas Diomidis, Peter Keech and Masashi Nakayama
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:259
  9. Geologic repositories for radioactive waste are designed as multi-barrier disposal systems that perform a number of functions including the long-term isolation and containment of waste from the human environme...

    Authors: Paul Bossart, Frédéric Bernier, Jens Birkholzer, Christophe Bruggeman, Peter Connolly, Sarah Dewonck, Masaaki Fukaya, Martin Herfort, Mark Jensen, Jean-Michel Matray, Juan Carlos Mayor, Andreas Moeri, Takahiro Oyama, Kristof Schuster, Naokata Shigeta, Tim Vietor…
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:236
  10. Repository concepts in clay or crystalline rock involve bentonite-based buffer or seal systems to provide containment of the waste and limit advective flow. A thorough understanding of buffer and seal evolutio...

    Authors: Klaus Wieczorek, Irina Gaus, Juan Carlos Mayor, Kristof Schuster, José-Luis García-Siñeriz and Toshihiro Sakaki
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:247
  11. For this pilot study we used recorded seismic events from the SED permanent network and data from a dedicated SNS network to improve the seismotectonic understanding of very weak seismicity in the vicinity of ...

    Authors: Martinus Abednego, Patrick Blascheck, Senecio Schefer, Christophe Nussbaum, Manfred Joswig, Paul Bossart and Jon Mosar
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:263
  12. This paper focuses on hydraulic-mechanical effects in the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland) and investigates their impact on pore pressure, the convergence of a niche and the evolution of pre-existing c...

    Authors: Gesa Ziefle, Jean-Michel Matray, Jobst Maßmann and Andreas Möri
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:252
  13. The excavation damaged zone (EDZ) around the backfilled underground structures of a geological repository represents a release path for radionuclides, which needs to be addressed in the assessment of long-term...

    Authors: Paul Marschall, Silvio Giger, Rémi De La Vassière, Hua Shao, Helen Leung, Christophe Nussbaum, Thomas Trick, Bill Lanyon, Rainer Senger, Andrea Lisjak and Andrés Alcolea
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:246
  14. The paper presents an overview of the behaviour of Opalinus Clay under thermal loading as observed in three in situ heating tests performed in the Mont Terri rock laboratory: HE-B, HE-D and HE-E. The three tes...

    Authors: Antonio Gens, Klaus Wieczorek, Irina Gaus, Benoit Garitte, Juan Carlos Mayor, Kristof Schuster, Gilles Armand, José Luis García-Siñeriz and Thomas Trick
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:258
  15. Opalinus Clay is currently being assessed as the host rock for a deep geological repository for high-level and low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes in Switzerland. Within this framework, the ‘Full-Sc...

    Authors: Herwig R. Müller, Benoit Garitte, Tobias Vogt, Sven Köhler, Toshihiro Sakaki, Hanspeter Weber, Thomas Spillmann, Marian Hertrich, Jens K. Becker, Niels Giroud, Veerle Cloet, Nikitas Diomidis and Tim Vietor
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:251
  16. The paper represents a summary about our research projects conducted between 2003 and 2015 related to the mechanical behaviour of Opalinus Clay at Mont Terri. The research summarized covers a series of laborat...

    Authors: Florian Amann, Katrin M. Wild, Simon Loew, Salina Yong, Reto Thoeny and Erik Frank
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:245
  17. The Cement–Opalinus Clay Interaction (CI) Experiment at the Mont Terri rock laboratory is a long-term passive diffusion–reaction experiment between contrasting materials of relevance to engineered barrier syst...

    Authors: Urs Mäder, Andreas Jenni, Cathérine Lerouge, Stephane Gaboreau, Satoru Miyoshi, Yukinobu Kimura, Veerle Cloet, Masaaki Fukaya, Francis Claret, Tsubasa Otake, Masahito Shibata and Babara Lothenbach
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:240
  18. The present study reports on elemental and Sr isotopic analyses of calcite and associated celestite infillings of various microtectonic features collected mostly in the Main Fault of the Opalinus Clay from Mon...

    Authors: Norbert Clauer, Isabelle Techer, Christophe Nussbaum and Ben Laurich
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 2017 110:253
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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

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