Hercynite as the product of staurolite decomposition in the contact aureole of Vedrette di Ries, eastern Alps, Italy

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Cesare
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Alps ◽  
Contact Aureole

La protezione dagli incendi boschivi nelle Alpi centro-occidentali | Forest Fire-Prevention in the Central Eastern Alps

2000 ◽  
Vol 151 (9) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Bovio
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Eastern Alps ◽  
Fire Prevention ◽  
Forest Fire Prevention ◽  
Central Eastern

Important forest fire prevention developments of the Lombardy, Piedmont and Aosta Valley regions are highlighted in this study and a certain number of activities considered able to improve the situation are proposed.

The K/T Boundary of Gams (Eastern Alps, Austria) and the Nature of Terminal Cretaceous Mass Extinction

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Grachev ◽  
H. A. Kollmann ◽  
O. A. Korchagin ◽  
D. M. Pechersky ◽  
V. A. Tsel'movich
Keyword(s):  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Eastern Alps

Opening of the West Paleo-Tethys Ocean: New insights from earliest Devonian meta-mafic rocks in the Saualpe crystalline basement, Eastern Alps

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingbin Guan ◽  
Yongjiang Liu ◽  
Franz Neubauer ◽  
Sanzhong Li ◽  
Johann Genser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Alps ◽  
Crystalline Basement ◽  
The West ◽  
Mafic Rocks ◽  
Tethys Ocean

scholarly journals Slope Failure in a Period of Increased Landslide Activity: Sennwald Rock Avalanche, Switzerland

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
Selçuk Aksay ◽  
Susan Ivy-Ochs ◽  
Kristina Hippe ◽  
Lorenz Grämiger ◽  
Christof Vockenhuber
Keyword(s):  
Slope Failure ◽  
Rock Avalanche ◽  
Eastern Alps ◽  
Rock Failure ◽  
Rhine River ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Exposure Age ◽  
Wet Climate ◽  
Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating ◽  
Additional Support

The Säntis nappe is a complex fold-and-thrust structure in eastern Switzerland, consisting of numerous tectonic discontinuities and a range of hillslopes prone to landsliding and large slope failures that modify the topography irreversibly. A slope failure, namely the Sennwald rock avalanche, occurred in the southeast wall of this fold-and-thrust structure due to the rock failure of Lower Cretaceous Helvetic limestones along the Rhine River valley. In this research, this palaeolandslide is examined in a multidisciplinary approach for the first time with detection and mapping of avalanche deposits, dynamic run-out modelling and cosmogenic nuclide dating. During the rock failure, the avalanche deposits were transported down the hillslope in a spreading-deck fashion, roughly preserving the original stratigraphic sequence. The distribution of landslide deposits and surface exposure age of the rock failure support the hypothesis that the landslide was a single catastrophic event. The 36Cl surface exposure age of avalanche deposits indicates an age of 4.3 ± 0.5 ka. This time coincides with a notably wet climate period, noted as a conditioning factor for landslides across the Alps in the mid-Holocene. The contemporaneity of our event at its location in the Eastern Alps provide additional support for the contention of increased regional seismic activity in mid-Holocene.

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