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Mechanism of clay swelling in Villarlod molasse: a Swiss sandstone
The characterization of swelling clays is important for diverse fields, including the field of conservation of built cultural heritage. Villarlod...
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Crushed but not lost: a colubriform snake (Serpentes) from the Miocene Swiss Molasse, identified through the use of micro-CT scanning technology
An incomplete postcranial skeleton of a snake from the middle Miocene of the Swiss Molasse in Käpfnach mine, near Zurich, Switzerland, is described...
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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 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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Overdeepenings in the Swiss plateau: U-shaped geometries underlain by inner gorges
We investigated the mechanisms leading to the formation of tunnel valleys in the Swiss foreland near Bern. We proceeded through producing 3D maps of...
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A novel workflow for geothermal exploration: 3D seismic interpretation of biohermal buildups (Upper Jurassic, Molasse Basin, Germany)
The Upper Jurassic carbonates are the prime target for deep geothermal exploration in the Molasse basin, South Germany. The carbonates have a...
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Glaciofluvial sequences recording the Birrfeld Glaciation (MIS 5d–2) in the Bern area, Swiss Plateau
In this paper, we document that glaciofluvial gravel sequences and glacial till deposits that are exposed in the Müntschemier and Finsterhennen...
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120 years of georesources research in Switzerland: the Swiss Geotechnical Commission (1899–2018)
Geological surveys have a wide range of tasks for their countries: to map the geology and to assess the georesources potential for metallic ores,...
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Constraining the provenance and evolution of the Western Alps Molasse Basin by detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology
Molasse basin is one of the best-preserved pieces of evidence of the Alpine orogeny. Molasse and flysch sequences deposited during the convergence...
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Integrated stratigraphic, sedimentological and petrographical evaluation for CERN’s Future Circular Collider subsurface infrastructure (Geneva Basin, Switzerland-France)
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is currently undertaking a feasibility study to build the next-generation particle accelerator,...
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A laboratory approach for the calibration of seismic data in the western part of the Swiss Molasse Basin: the case history of well Humilly-2 (France) in the Geneva area
A collection of 81 plugs were obtained from the Humilly-2 borehole (France), that reached the Permo-Carboniferous sediments at a depth of 3051 m....
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SAPHYR: Swiss Atlas of Physical Properties of Rocks: the continental crust in a database
The Swiss Atlas of Physical Properties of Rocks (SAPHYR) project aims at centralize, uniform, and digitize dispersed and often hardly accessible...
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First fossil record of Varanus (Reptilia, Squamata) from Switzerland and the earliest occurrences of the genus in Europe
We here describe two isolated fossil teeth from the Early Miocene (MN 4) of Hüenerbach, Switzerland. The material is tentatively referred to Varanus ,...
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The voyage of the ‘Guyot Stone’ from the Swiss Alps to Neuchâtel and Princeton
In 1890, former students of Arnold Guyot at the University of Neuchàtel dedicated a ‘large glacial boulder from Neuchâtel’ to his memory, now in...
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New paleontological and biostratigraphical data (calcareous nannofossils, ostracods, brachiopods), correlations and lithostratigraphic units in the Urgonian facies (latest Hauterivian-Barremian) of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains: the Falaises Member and the Saars Formation (former “Gorges de l’Orbe Formation”)
From latest Hauterivian to latest Barremian, the Urgonian facies of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains are subdivided into three formations and five...
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Early Pleistocene complex cut-and-fill sequences in the Alps
Cut-and-fill sequences are the result of climatically or tectonically induced alternating aggradation and incision phases of a fluvial system. A...
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Postglacial evolution of the Lake Constance shelf and its relation to a 10-km long chain of submerged Neolithic mounds
A recent bathymetric survey of Lake Constance revealed ~ 170 mounds composed of loosely deposited rocks aligned in a ~ 10-km long chain along the...
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Schistes Lustrés in a hyper-extended continental margin setting and reinterpretation of the limit between the Mont Fort and Tsaté nappes (Middle and Upper Penninics, Western Swiss Alps)
The Schistes Lustrés form a large and complex unit at the top of the Penninic nappe stack of the Alpine belt. Calcschists, partly of Late Cretaceous...
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Identification of Subsurface Structures Using H/V Curves from Earthquake Recordings: Application to Seismic Stations in Switzerland
We performed a study to test the performances of the Hybrid Heuristic Search (HHS) algorithm (Nagashima et al. 2014) using earthquake recordings at...
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Origins of hydrocarbons in the Geneva Basin: insights from oil, gas and source rock organic geochemistry
An extensive subsurface investigation evaluating the geothermal energy resources and underground thermal energy storage potential is being carried...
