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Lithofacies, stratigraphy and depositional history of Middle Muschelkalk evaporites (Zeglingen Formation) in northern Switzerland
In northern Switzerland, Middle Muschelkalk evaporites (Zeglingen Formation) were deposited under arid conditions in the southernmost part of the...
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Palaeomagnetic and mineral magnetic analyses of the Deckenschotter of northern Switzerland and southern Germany
The Deckenschotter is a fluvial to glaciofluvial gravel unit in northern Switzerland and southern Germany. The deposits are considered the oldest...
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Microstructural characterization of natural fractures and faults in the Opalinus Clay: insights from a deep drilling campaign across central northern Switzerland
The Middle-Jurassic Opalinus Clay is the foreseen host rock for radioactive waste disposal in central northern Switzerland. An extensive drilling...
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Projections of future anthropogenic climate change in Switzerland using multi-GCM modeling
Global climate change has become a serious ecological concern, particularly in mountainous areas. Therefore, identifying and assessing future climate...
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Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland
Bernhard Peyer (1885–1963) was a prominent Swiss vertebrate palaeontologist and anatomist at the University of Zurich. In 1919, he discovered the...
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Exploring possible links between Quaternary aggradation in the Upper Rhine Graben and the glaciation history of northern Switzerland
The Quaternary filling of the Upper Rhine Graben is an excellent archive to reconstruct sediment dynamics in response to climate change, in...
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On the statistical distribution of temperature and the classification of extreme events considering season and climate change—an application in Switzerland
With the increased occurrence of hot spells in recent years, there is growing interest in quantifying the recurrence of extreme temperature events....
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Sedimentology of the Jura Molasse: Miocene tidal clastics and freshwater carbonates from the Tramelan-2 Borehole, NW Switzerland
The Tramelan-2 borehole (Canton Bern, Switzerland) continuously cored a 275.60 m sequence of Palaeogene to Neogene sediments, providing a rare...
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The Late Iron Age in Switzerland: a review of anthropological, funerary, and isotopic studies
The Iron Age in continental Europe is a period of profound cultural and biological importance with heterogeneous trends through space and time....
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A site amplification model for Switzerland based on site-condition indicators and incorporating local response as measured at seismic stations
The spatial estimation of the soil response is one of the key ingredients for the modelling of earthquake risk. We present a ground motion...
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Using historical data to access the surface subsidence in the vegetable belt of the Three Lakes Region, Switzerland
The ‘Grosses Moos’ in the Three Lakes Region (Berner Seeland) was formed by the Wallis glacier resulting in a peat bog-dominated landscape. During...
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A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland
The Alpine Prosanto Formation (Middle Triassic) crop** out in the Ducan region in eastern Switzerland has yielded a rich fish and reptile fauna....
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Using FlamMap to assess wildfire behavior in Bohemian Switzerland National Park
The 2022 summer fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park (BSNP) is the largest in the 30-year recorded history of the Czech Republic, with an...
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Hydrogeologic Exploration during Excavation of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel (AlpTransit Switzerland)
Many tunnels that are currently being built through the Alps have to cross fractured and karstified formations at great depth and many hundreds of...
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Caviomorph rodents from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical Santiago Roth Collection in Switzerland
Here I reviewed the Pleistocene caviomorphs collected by Santiago Roth (collection from Catalog No. 5) and housed at the paleontological collection...
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Livestock management during times of transition. Exploring the relationship between animal size and diet from Roman to early medieval Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)
Zooarchaeological research all over Europe has suggested a generalised pattern of livestock size decrease during the transition between the Roman...
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Early expansion of mixed oak stands at 16,800–16,600 cal bp at a northern Italian glacial refugium in the Euganean Hills
Continuous sedimentary lake records covering the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) are very rare in Europe. Here, we conducted additional palynological...
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Middle Triassic Nautilida from the Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland
For the first time, nautilids from the Besano Formation (Anisian/Ladinian boundary) are documented. The extremely rare material was collected from...
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Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea
Orthoconic cephalopods are subordinate, but persistent, widespread and regionally abundant components of Triassic marine ecosystems. Here, we...
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Tourist management in national parks in the Czech-German borderland: Bohemian ‘Switzerland’ and Saxon ‘Switzerland’
In the article tourist management in two national parks in the Czech-German borderland are being compared, namely Bohemian ‘Switzerland’ (also known...