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The St. Moritz Mauritius mineral spring (Upper Engadine Valley, SE Switzerland): review of its importance by the joint facts of geological occurrence, archeology, health effects, chemical properties, and long-term chemical stability
The St. Mauritius mineral spring has been used since the late Bronze Age times (1410/1411 BC), as dated on the wooden headworks using radiocarbon and...
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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...
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Record of a dense succession of drowning phases in the Alpstein mountains, northeastern Switzerland: Part II—the Lower Cretaceous Schrattenkalk Formation (late Barremian)
The Schrattenkalk Formation represents a complete succession of Lower Cretaceous shallow-water carbonate platform series crop** out in the Alpstein...
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Earthquakes in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2017 and 2018
This report summarizes the seismicity in Switzerland and surrounding regions in the years 2017 and 2018. In 2017 and 2018, the Swiss Seismological...
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The North Penninic Bündnerschiefer and Flysch of the Prättigau (Swiss Alps) revisited
During the re-map** of the area for the Geological Atlas of Switzerland, a significant stratigraphic unconformity was discovered in the North...
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Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth
Santiago Roth was a Swiss fossil finder, naturalist, and paleontologist that emigrated to Argentina in 1866. His work largely influenced the...
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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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Submicron Insight into the Snap-Off Phenomenon
Snap-off is a multiphase displacement mechanism that can cause trap** of the non-wetting phase inside a porous medium. Understanding how, where and...
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The new seismic hazard model ESHM20 of Europe: Investigating the implications to the seismic design and risk assessment of major industrial facilities across Europe
The seismic performance and safety of major European industrial facilities have a global interest for the whole of Europe and its citizens. However,...
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Combining Weather Station Data and Short-Term LiDAR Deployment to Estimate Wind Energy Potential with Machine Learning: A Case Study from the Swiss Alps
Wind energy potential in complex terrain is still poorly understood and difficult to quantify. With Switzerland’s current efforts to shift to...
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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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Impact Assessment of Road Construction on Landslide Susceptibility in Mountainous Region using GIS-Based Statistical Modelling
Landslide susceptibility is crucial for effective hazard management, planning mitigation, and risk reduction strategies. The present study assessed...
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A Spherepack and Its Navier-Stokes Solution Approximation
Understanding how fluids travel through subsurface rocks is crucial to design ground water management, hydrocarbon extraction, CO2 sequestration, and...
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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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Formation of a Pendular Liquid Ring
A series of snapshots, captured under a microscope showing the formation of a pendular ring (trapped liquid at the contact of two solid particles)...
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Cracks in Wet Sand
Spectacular fracture patterns appear when wet sand in a Hele-Shaw cell dries out. At the tip of the fracture, the invading meniscus pushes the grains...
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Electrospun Fibrous Mats
Electrospinning is a technique whereby a polymer solvent solution is ejected from a syringe, and by the application of a high DC voltage (>10 kV) is...
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Mass Transport in Conformally Coated Porous Materials
Coating 3D printed plastic materials has been shown to be an effective method of reducing outgassing [1].
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Dispersed Nanostructured Thin Film (dNSTF) Catalyst
Typical proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) electrodes are multi-micron thick, porous films comprised of platinum dispersed over nm-scale...