[en] The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The spelling of the Yu.K. VASILCHUK’s name was incorrect. The correct name is given below.Yu.K. VASIL’CHUK

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[en] The tectonic evolution of Northern Switzerland is characterized by a superposition of events, with the preceding ones strongly influencing their successors. The oldest, stratigraphically documented one is the late Paleozoic trough of Constance-Frick. It was recently discovered on reflection lines and in drill holes. Seismic evidence suggests a dextrally-transpressive belt with occasional transtensive episodes and rapidly varying depths, reaching down to 7 km. This picture fits into the frame of a broad dextral transform belt between the Appalachians and the Urals which has been postulated for this time interval. Before the transgression of the Mesozoic the relief was reduced to a peneplain, and this was followed by rather quiet subsidence that lasted for almost 200 my, although probably interrupted in the Cretaceous. It was followed by renewed tectonic activity in the Paleogene. Between the late Eocene and the early Miocene there was a largely extensional period which is documented for the Alps and their northern, western and southern foreland. In this period, a number of the Paleozoic fault zones were reactivated, mainly as comparatively gentle flexures which were accentuated by minor faults. This relief was peneplained again before the Langhian. With the middle Miocene, an entirely new tectonic situation originated ('Miocene revolution'). The stress field was re-oriented. In the area of the southern Rhinegraben a large dome, rooting in the lithosphere, began to rise (Black Forest-Vosges dome). The Alps began again a part of the compressive Africa-Europe plate boundary (Neo-Alps). Their northern front progressively penetrated the foreland, and their final addition, in the late Miocene, was the decollement nappe of the Jura. The sole of this thrust sheet had been strongly disturbed by the Paleogene deformations. 46 refs., 8 figs

[en] The article, Impact of climate change on alpine vegetation of mountain summits in Norway.

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[en] The author discusses prospecting for uranium within and outside the alpine permian in Austria. (Auth.)

[en] The electromagnetic induction pattern in the Eastern Alps is characterised by a (continuous) large-scale zone on which the real parts of the induction arrows show anomalous directional behaviour. This zone extends from the Penninic Domain of Eastern Switzerland (Graubuenden) probably into the Carpathian ranges. A coarse mesh of a Magnetotelluric (MT) and Geomagnetic Deep Sounding (GDS) station in the Alps of Graubuenden and Valais (Western Switzerland) indicates that this electromagnetic anomaly is restricted to the Mesozoic sediments of the North Penninic Buendnerschiefer-facies that begins in Eastern Switzerland and extends towards the east beneath Austroalpine, South Penninic and Southalpine units. Striking similarities in position and arrangement between this zone and the magnetic signature in Eastern Alps are found. The analysis of the GDS data with the method of the Hypothetical Event Analysis (HEA) shows that current channelling affects the electromagnetic fields in this zone and causes the anomalous direction of induction arrows. Based on the combined interpretation of GDS data from the Eastern Alps and West Hungary together with the recent data from Switzerland, the following geological implications are discussed: i) a spatial decoupling of induction processes from the upper to the lower crust; ii) a lower crustal conductive structure caused by the identification of the Northern Adriatic promontory or terrane; iii) the eastward continuation of the Buendnerschiefer-facies at least to the tectonic window of Rechnitz

[en] A small collection of echinoderm holdfasts from the Ludlow Cardiola Formation of the Carnic Alps (Austria) contains a wide range of morphologies as a response of environmental adaptation. In general, the holdfasts have a globous and massive dome-like profile with several processes arranged in a sub-radial disposition, so to create a sort of ‘star-like’ outline. A small central depression is common but not present on all specimens. The distinctive holdfasts are preserved in an iron-rich phase, documenting a substitution that has also affected other non-echinoderm calcareous material. (Author)