Geology of the Alps The Alps form a part of a Tertiary orogenic belt of mountain chains along the southern margin of the continents Asia and Europe, called the Alpide belt.

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss physician who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition to medicine, he was also quite interested in travel. One of his travel accounts deals with the ...

What drives glacial cycles? A bi-hemispheric perspective on the Last Glacial Termination using Glacier chronologies from the Southern Alps of New Zealand and the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia.

Speleothems turned out to be a great stroke of luck: dripstones from two caves in the Swiss Alps provide for the first time a continuous reconstruction of temperatures during the Last Interglacial ...

Geology articles posted online ahead of print this month survey topography, minerals, faults and tectonics, alluvium, modeling, snowball Earth, fossils and extinction, and pyrite-filled worm ...

Snake Hill on the east side of Saratoga Lake is a unique geological feature that can be compared to developments in the Alps. I worked with a student on the geology of this low (about 200-foot) hill.

A combined course in how mountains are built and how they are climbed will be given by Professor K. F. Mather, head of the Geological Department in the University, in the Swiss Alps, where a ...

The study of Structural Geology and Tectonics concerns the deformation of the Earth's crust and mantle. The scale of observation can be from the submicroscopic level to a mountain chain like the Rocky ...

Thrust up by the collision of two chunks of the Earth's crust and upper mantle, the mountains stood as high as the Alps or perhaps even the Himalayas.

THE title of this work at once announces its importance in Alpine geology. Most of us, young and old, are familiar with the section through the Eastern Alps which we owe to the veteran Austrian ...