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 ...

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 ...

Many steep valleys in the European Alps show the relicts of large rockslides, during which several hundreds of million cubic metres of rocks get instable, collapse and impact everything on their ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...