Structural and thermal evolution of the eastern Aar Massif: insights from structural field work and Raman thermometry

3D thermal structure of the Helvetic nappes of the European Alps: implications for collisional processes

(2020) J.B. Girault et al.   TECTONICS

The relation between peak metamorphic temperatures and subsequent cooling during continent–continent collision (western Central Alps, Switzerland)

(2020) Alfons Berger et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Constraining deformation phases in the Aar Massif and the Gotthard Nappe (Switzerland) using Th Pb crystallization ages of fissure monazite-(Ce)

(2019) E. Ricchi et al.   LITHOS

Late stages of continent-continent collision: Timing, kinematic evolution, and exhumation of the Northern rim (Aar Massif) of the Alps

(2019) M. Herwegh et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Structural-permeability favorability in crystalline rocks and implications for groundwater flow paths: a case study from the Aar Massif (central Switzerland)

(2018) Raphael Schneeberger et al.   HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL

Large vertical displacements of a crystalline massif recorded by Raman thermometry

(2018) Lukas Nibourel et al.   GEOLOGY

Structural characteristics, bulk porosity and evolution of an exhumed long-lived hydrothermal system

(2018) Daniel Egli et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Fault gouge graphitization as evidence of past seismic slip

(2017) Li-Wei Kuo et al.   GEOLOGY

Towards a Higher Comparability of Geothermometric Data Obtained by Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material. Part 2: A Revised Geothermometer

(2017) N. Keno Lünsdorf et al.   GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH

How is strain localized in a meta-granitoid, mid-crustal basement section? Spatial distribution of deformation in the central Aar massif (Switzerland)

(2017) P. Wehrens et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Ivrea mantle wedge, arc of the Western Alps, and kinematic evolution of the Alps–Apennines orogenic system

(2017) Stefan M. Schmid et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Tectonics of the central Swiss Molasse Basin: Post-Miocene transition to incipient thick-skinned tectonics?

(2017) Samuel Mock et al.   TECTONICS

Th-Pb ion probe dating of zoned hydrothermal monazite and its implications for repeated shear zone activity: An example from the Central Alps, Switzerland

(2017) C. Bergemann et al.   TECTONICS

Microstructures, mineral chemistry and geochronology of white micas along a retrograde evolution: An example from the Aar massif (Central Alps, Switzerland)

(2017) Alfons Berger et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Large-Scale Crustal-Block-Extrusion During Late Alpine Collision

(2017) Marco Herwegh et al.   Scientific Reports

The Exhumation history of the European Alps inferred from linear inversion of thermochronometric data

(2016) M. Fox et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Role of tectonic burial and temperature on the inversion of inherited extensional basins during collision

(2016) MANFRED LAFOSSE et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Thick-skinned tectonics and basement-involved fold–thrust belts: insights from selected Cenozoic orogens

(2016) OLIVIER LACOMBE et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Foreland exhumation controlled by crustal thickening in the Western Alps

(2016) Stéphane Schwartz et al.   GEOLOGY

Evaluating Raman spectra of carbonaceous matter by automated, iterative curve-fitting

(2016) N.K. Lünsdorf et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Inherited structural controls on fault geometry, architecture and hydrothermal activity: an example from Grimsel Pass, Switzerland

(2016) Thomas M. Belgrano et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Lithostratigraphic units of the Helvetic Palaeogene: review, new definition, new classification

(2016) Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

The accretion of foreland basin sediments during early stages of continental collision in the European Alps and similarities to accretionary wedge tectonics

(2016) Armin Dielforder et al.   TECTONICS

Deformation at the frictional-viscous transition: Evidence for cycles of fluid-assisted embrittlement and ductile deformation in the granitoid crust

(2016) Philip Wehrens et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Thermal and structural evolution of the external Western Alps: Insights from (U–Th–Sm)/He thermochronology and RSCM thermometry in the Aiguilles Rouges/Mont Blanc massifs

(2016) A. Boutoux et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Shear stress in the graphitization of carbonaceous matter during the low-grade metamorphism from the northern Parang Mountains (South Carpathians) — Implications to graphite geothermometry

(2015) Sorin Constantin Barzoi   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Shortening of the European Dauphinois margin (Oisans Massif, Western Alps): New insights from RSCM maximum temperature estimates and 40Ar/39Ar in situ dating

(2015) M. Bellanger et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Relating orogen width to shortening, erosion, and exhumation during Alpine collision

(2015) C. L. Rosenberg et al.   TECTONICS

Transition from thin- to thick-skinned tectonics and consequences for nappe formation: Numerical simulations and applications to the Helvetic nappe system, Switzerland

(2015) Arthur Bauville et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Linking megathrust earthquakes to brittle deformation in a fossil accretionary complex

(2015) Armin Dielforder et al.   Nature Communications

Inversion of pre-orogenic extensional basins in the external Western Alps: Structure, microstructures and restoration

(2014) Alexandre Boutoux et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Cretaceous syn-sedimentary faulting in the Wildhorn Nappe (SW Switzerland)

(2014) G. L. Cardello et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Collision kinematics in the western external Alps

(2014) N. Bellahsen et al.   TECTONICS

Late Miocene to present deformation and erosion of the Central Alps — Evidence for steady state mountain building from thermokinematic data

(2014) C. von Hagke et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Three-dimensional insight into Central-Alpine collision: Lower-plate or upper-plate indentation?

(2013) Claudio L. Rosenberg et al.   GEOLOGY

Towards a Higher Comparability of Geothermometric Data obtained by Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material. Part I: Evaluation of Biasing Factors

(2013) Nils K. Lünsdorf et al.   GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH

U–Th–Pb dating of collision in the external Alpine domains (Urseren zone, Switzerland) using low temperature allanite and monazite

(2013) Emilie Janots et al.   LITHOS

Structure of orogenic belts controlled by lithosphere age

(2013) Frédéric Mouthereau et al.   Nature Geoscience

Thermal structure and metamorphic evolution of the Piemont-Ligurian metasediments in the northern Western Alps

(2013) François Negro et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Constraints on fluid evolution during metamorphism from U–Th–Pb systematics in Alpine hydrothermal monazite

(2012) Emilie Janots et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Miocene paleotopography of the Central Alps

(2012) M. Campani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Combining controlled-source seismology and local earthquake tomography to derive a 3-D crustal model of the western Alpine region

(2012) Michael Wagner et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Structural styles of mountain building: Controls of lithospheric rheologic stratification and extensional inheritance

(2012) Suzon Jammes et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Role of chemical processes on shear zone formation: an example from the Grimsel metagranodiorite (Aar massif, Central Alps)

(2012) P. GONCALVES et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Linking the northern Alps with their foreland: The latest exhumation history resolved by low-temperature thermochronology

(2012) C. von Hagke et al.   TECTONICS

Necking of continental crust in magma-poor rifted margins: Evidence from the fossil Alpine Tethys margins

(2012) G. Mohn et al.   TECTONICS

Mechanisms of margin inversion in the external Western Alps: Implications for crustal rheology

(2012) N. Bellahsen et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

K–Ar dating of synkinematic clay gouges from Neoalpine faults of the Central, Western and Eastern Alps

(2012) Jan Pleuger et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Rapid extensive erosion of the North Alpine foreland basin at 5-4 Ma

(2011) Charlotte E. Cederbom et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Episodic exhumation and relief growth in the Mont Blanc massif, Western Alps from numerical modelling of thermochronology data

(2011) C. Glotzbach et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Detrital thermochronology records changing source areas and steady exhumation in the Western European Alps

(2011) Christoph Glotzbach et al.   GEOLOGY

3-D assessment of peak-metamorphic conditions by Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material: an example from the margin of the Lepontine dome (Swiss Central Alps)

(2011) Michael Wiederkehr et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological–geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps

(2010) Mark R. Handy et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Thermal history of the central Gotthard and Aar massifs, European Alps: Evidence for steady state, long-term exhumation

(2010) C. Glotzbach et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Role of plagioclase and reaction softening in a metagranite shear zone at mid-crustal conditions (Gotthard Massif, Swiss Central Alps)

(2010) E. OLIOT et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

India–Asia convergence driven by the subduction of the Greater Indian continent

(2010) F. A. Capitanio et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evolution of the Raman spectrum of carbonaceous material in low-grade metasediments of the Glarus Alps (Switzerland)

(2010) A. Lahfid et al.   TERRA NOVA

Inversion of extensional sedimentary basins: A numerical evaluation of the localisation of shortening

(2009) Susanne J.H. Buiter et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Constraining deformation stages in brittle–ductile shear zones from combined field mapping and 40Ar/39Ar dating: The structural evolution of the Grimsel Pass area (Aar Massif, Swiss Alps)

(2009) Yann Rolland et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Structure and kinematics of the Jungfrau syncline, Faflertal (Valais, Alps), and its regional significance

(2009) Thomas Krayenbuhl et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Quartz as indicator mineral in the Central Swiss Alps: the quartz recrystallization isograd in the rock series of the northern Aar massif

(2009) Hans Ulrich Bambauer et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Increase in late Neogene denudation of the European Alps confirmed by analysis of a fission-track thermochronology database

(2008) A.J. Vernon et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Recycling of Graphite During Himalayan Erosion: A Geological Stabilization of Carbon in the Crust

(2008) V. Galy et al.   SCIENCE

From subduction to collision: Thermal overprint of HP/LT meta-sediments in the north-eastern Lepontine Dome (Swiss Alps) and consequences regarding the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Alpine orogenic wedge

(2008) Michael Wiederkehr et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

P-T-t modelling, fluid circulation, and 39Ar-40Ar and Rb-Sr mica ages in the Aar Massif shear zones (Swiss Alps)

(2008) Nathalie Challandes et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Tectonic control on the late stage exhumation of the Aar Massif (Switzerland): Constraints from apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He data

(2008) John Reinecker et al.   TECTONICS

Grain coarsening maps for polymineralic carbonate mylonites: A calibration based on data from different Helvetic nappes (Switzerland)

(2008) Andreas Ebert et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Continental plate collision, P–T–t–z conditions and unstable vs. stable plate dynamics: Insights from thermo-mechanical modelling

(2007) Evgene Burov et al.   LITHOS