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Spatial variability in aerosol composition and its seawater acidification potential in coastal waters of the western coastal Bay of Bengal
Deposition of atmospheric dust is reported to acidify surface waters in the northern Bay of Bengal (BoB). To examine the spatial variability in...
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Bivalve Mollusks from the Lower Berriasian Deposits of the Northern Slope of the Ai-Petri Yaila (Southwestern Crimea)
AbstractFive bivalve species ( Arcomytilus sanctaecrucis, Neithea valangiensis, Plagiostoma dubisiensis, Prohinnites renevieri, and Protocardia broili ...
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Biodiversity conservation in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan mountain region of northern Pakistan: Overview of big mammal protection
The high mountains of northern Pakistan comprise the western section of the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayas (HKH) region of South and Central Asia....
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Thomas Henry Huxley, a stone tablet, coccoliths, and deep-sea sediments in the high Alps
In the mid-1850s, Thomas Henry Huxley, who coined the term ‘coccolith’, described their presence in oceanic sediments dredged from the sea floor....
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Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) Ammonoids from the Boulders of the Greek Quarry, Central Crimea
AbstractThe Sinemurian ammonoids from the boulders in the Greek quarry (Salgir River basin, southeast of Simferopol) are described. The assemblages...
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Characteristics and dynamics of the Ganqiuchi rock avalanche triggered by a paleo-earthquake in the Northern Qinling Mountains
Analyzing large prehistoric rock avalanches provides significant data for evaluating the disaster posed by these relatively infrequent but...
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The Structure of Mountains
Between Chur and Lake Walen in Switzerland, a striking line divides the mountains, in two storeys of obviously completely different rocks. The Glarus...
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The earliest true Spirorbinae from the late Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of France, Israel and Madagascar
Two new spirorbin species, Neomicrorbis israelicus sp. nov. and Spirorbis ? hagadolensis sp. nov., are here described from the Callovian of Israel,...
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The Potential of RainWater Harvesting Systems in Europe – Current State of Art and Future Perspectives
Water scarcity and climate change led to changes in water management, especially in urban areas. RainWater Harvesting (RWH) is a promising technique...
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The Muschelkalk aquifer of the Molasse basin in SW-Germany: implications on the origin and development of highly saline lithium-rich brines in calcareous hydrothermal reservoirs
Highly saline lithium-rich hydrothermal fluids (measured chloride concentration up to 44 g kg −1 , lithium concentration up to 162 mg kg −1 ) occur in...
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Morphology, taxonomy and trophic interactions of rostrum-less coleoids from the Late Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte (Lower Austria)
Coleoid cephalopods are widespread from the Mesozoic till today. The extinct group of the Phragmoteuthida is thought to represent either...
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Landslides along the Lago Maggiore western coast (northern Italy): intense rainfall as trigger or concomitant cause?
The Lago Maggiore catchment is characterized by medium to high altitude (up to 4633 m a.s.l. with a median of 1270 m a.s.l.), high precipitation...
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Ambient Vibration Analysis on Large Scale Arrays When Lateral Variations Occur in the Subsurface: A Study Case in Switzerland
The ambient vibration analysis is a non-invasive and low-cost technique used in site characterization studies to reconstruct the subsurface velocity...
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Climatology and circulation conditions of potential foehn occurrence in the Polish Tatra Mountains
Foehn wind occurrence has generated great interest among researchers because of the destructive power and impact on the local climate. Based on...
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Characteristics of various radiative fluxes: global, tilted, direct, and diffused radiation—a case study of Nigeria
A proper understanding of what the earth’s surface receives when sun rays leave the sun’s disk is important as this informs the decisions made by...
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How Alpine seismicity relates to lithospheric strength
Despite the amount of research focussed on the Alpine orogen, different hypotheses still exist regarding varying spatial seismicity distribution...
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Tertiary Himalayan Coal-bearing Sequences of India: A Reappraisal of their Evolutionary Consequences
This paper presents a comprehensive account on the evolution of the Tertiary Himalaya coals of India and their various attributes. The coal bearing...
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The “Rzehakia beds” on the northern shelf of the Pannonian Basin: biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications
The Miocene genus Rzehakia, an endemic brackish bivalve that lived in the Paratethys Sea, recorded in late Ottnangian sediments deposited during the...
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Permafrost Monitoring from Space
Permafrost is a sub-ground phenomenon and therefore cannot be directly observed from space. It is an Essential Climate Variable and associated with...
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Polyphase tectono-magmatic evolution during mantle exhumation in an ultra-distal, magma-poor rift domain: example of the fossil Platta ophiolite, SE Switzerland
Despite the fact that many studies have investigated mantle exhumation at ultra-slow-spreading ridges and magma-poor rifted margins, there are still...
