[HTML][HTML] Coupled surface to deep Earth processes: Perspectives from TOPO-EUROPE with an emphasis on climate-and energy-related societal challenges

S Cloetingh, P Sternai, A Koptev, TA Ehlers… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the interactions between surface and deep Earth processes is important for
research in many diverse scientific areas including climate, environment, energy …

[HTML][HTML] Slab load controls beneath the Alps on the source-to-sink sedimentary pathways in the Molasse basin

F Schlunegger, E Kissling - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The stratigraphic development of foreland basins has mainly been related to surface loading
in the adjacent orogens, whereas the control of slab loads on these basins has received …

Thermo‐Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern European Alps Along the TRANSALP Transect

PR Eizenhöfer, C Glotzbach, J Kley, TA Ehlers - Tectonics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The eastern European Alps are shaped by the indentation of Adria into Europe.
Recent tomography, depicting detached slab fragments, has been interpreted as evidence …

Middle Miocene climate and stable oxygen isotopes in Europe based on numerical modeling

S Botsyun, TA Ehlers, A Koptev… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Middle Miocene (15.99–11.65 Ma) of Europe witnessed major climatic,
environmental, and vegetational change, yet we are lacking detailed reconstructions of …

Epidote U-Pb geochronology and H isotope geochemistry trace pre-orogenic hydration of midcrustal granitoids

V Peverelli, A Berger, A Mulch, T Pettke… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Hydrothermal veins and altered feldspar are evidence for fluid circulation in granitic rocks in
the continental crust. The hydrothermal alteration of feldspar affects the deformation …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse altitude effect disputes the theoretical foundation of stable isotope paleoaltimetry

Z Jing, W Yu, S Lewis, LG Thompson, J Xu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Stable isotope paleoaltimetry that reconstructs paleoelevation requires stable isotope (δD or
δ18O) values to follow the altitude effect. Some studies found that the δD or δ18O values of …

[HTML][HTML] Crushed but not lost: a colubriform snake (Serpentes) from the Miocene Swiss Molasse, identified through the use of micro-CT scanning technology

GL Georgalis, TM Scheyer - Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
An incomplete postcranial skeleton of a snake from the middle Miocene of the Swiss
Molasse in Käpfnach mine, near Zurich, Switzerland, is described in this paper. The skeleton …

The Early and Middle Pleistocene glaciations in the Alps

M Giovanni, F Gianotti, IO Susan, JM Reitner… - Alpine and …, 2023 - iris.unito.it
The Alps experienced extensive glaciations during many Pleistocene cold stages. New
stratigraphic and geochronological data gathered in the last decade depict the Early …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of diachronous surface uplift of the European Alps on regional climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation

D Boateng, SG Mutz, A Ballian… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
The European Alps are hypothesized to have experienced diachronous surface uplift in
response to post-collisional processes such as, eg, slab break-off. Therefore, understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the hydration history of an inverted passive continental margin using epidote UPb geochronology and Pb–Sr–O–H isotope geochemistry

V Peverelli, A Berger, M Wille, A Mulch, P Lanari… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Inverted passive continental margins permit to comprehensively characterize fluid circulation
in the continental crust in orogens from rifting to tectonic inversion. Since granitic rocks have …