Publications, PhD & Diploma theses and Unpublished manuscripts

• Key Publications from the Tectonics Group

  • Schmid, S.M., Benoulli, D., Fügenschuh, B., Matenco, L., Schefer, S., Schuster, R., Tischler, M. & Ustaszewski, K. 2008. The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(1), 139-183. (view map)
  • Ustaszewski, K., and Schmid, S., 2007. Latest Pliocene to recent thick-skinned tectonics at the Upper Rhine Graben - Jura Mountains junction. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 100, 293-312.
  • Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B., Kissling, E. and Schuster, R. 2004. TRANSMED Transects IV, V and VI: Three lithospheric transects across the Alps and their forelands. In: Cavazza W, Roure F, Spakman W, Stampfli GM, and Ziegler PA (eds). The TRANSMED Atlas: The Mediterranean Region from Crust to Mantle. Springer Verlag.
  • Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B., Kissling, E. and Schuster, R. 2004. Tectonic map and overtall architecture of the Alpine orogen. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 97: 93-117. See update: Nov. 2006!
  • Dèzes, P., Schmid, S. and Ziegler, P.A. 2004. Evolution of the European Cenozoic Rift System: Interaction of the Alpine and Pyrenean orogens with their foreland lithosphere. Tectonophysics, 389: 1-33. (ScienceDirect^TM: Hottest Tectonophysics Article, 1^st quarter 2005 & Tectonophysics Most Cited Author 2003-2007 Award)
  • Ziegler, P.A. and Dèzes, P., 2006. Crustal Evolution of Western and Central Europe. In: D. Gee and R.A. Stephenson (Editors), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 43-56
  • Schmid, S.M. & Kissling, E. 2000. The arc of theWestern Alpsin the light of geophysical data on deep crustal structure. Tectonics, 19, 62-85.
  • Schmid, S.M., Pfiffner, O.A., Froitzheim, N., Schnönborn, E. and Kissling, E. 1996. Geophysical-geological transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps. Tectonics, 15, 1036-1064.
    

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  • 2012

    • Viola, G., Kounov, A., Andreoli, M.A. and Mattila, J. 2012. Brittle tectonic evolution along the western margin of South Africa: more than 500 Myr of continued reactivation. Tectonophysics, 514-517, 93-114.
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  • 2011

    • Berger, A., Schmid, S.M., Engi, M. Bousquet, R. and Wiederkehr, M., 2011. Mechanisms of mass and heat transport during Barrovian metamorphism: A discussion based on field evidence from the Central Alps (Switzerland/northern Italy). Tectonics, 30, TC1007, 1-17, doi:10.1029/2009TC002622.
    • Kounov, A., Burg, J-P., Bernoulli, D., Seward, D., Ivanov, Z., Dimov, D. and Gerdjikov, I. 2011. Paleostress analysis of Cenozoic faulting in the Kraishte area, SW Bulgaria. Journal of Structural Geology, 33, 859–874, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2011.03.006.
    • Loprieno, A., Bousquet, R., Bucher, S., Ceriani, S., Dalla Torre, F.H., Fügenschuh, B. and Schmid, S.M. 2011. The Valais units in Savoy (France): a key area for understanding the palaeogeography and the tectonic evolution of the Western Alps. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 100, 963-992, DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0595-1.
    • Schefer, S., Cvetković, V. Fügenschuh, B., Kounov, A., Ovtcharova, M., Schaltegger, U. and Schmid, S.M. 2011. Cenozoic granitoids in the Dinarides of southern Serbia: age of intrusion, isotope geochemistry, exhumation history and significance for the geodynamic evolution of the Balkan Peninsula. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 100, 1181-1206, DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0599-x.
    • Wiederkehr, M., Bousquet, R., Ziemann, M. A., Berger, A. and Schmid, S.M. 2011. 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). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 100, 1029-1063, DOI: 10.1007/s00531-010-0622-2.
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  • 2010

    • Gerdjikov, I., Lazarova, A., Balkanska, E., Bonev, B., Vangelov, D., Dimov, D. and Kounov, A. 2010. A new model for the pre-Permian basement of the Central Stara Planina Mountain. Comptes rendus de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences, Geology, 63(8), 1169-1176.
    • Handy, M. R., Schmid, S.M., Bousquet, R., Kissling, E. and Bernoulli, D., 2010. Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological-geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps. Earth-Science Reviews, 102, 121-158.
    • Kounov, A., Seward, D., Burg, J-P., Bernoulli, D., Ivanov, Z. and Handler, R. 2010. Geochronological and structural constraints on the Cretaceous thermotectonic evolution of the Kraishte zone (Western Bulgaria). Tectonics, 29, TC2002, doi:10.1029/2009TC002509.
    • van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R., Kerr, A., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D. and Villagomez, D. (2010). Thermochronology and Tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: evolution of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone. Tectonics, 29, TC6003, doi:10.1029/2009TC002654.
    • Madritsch, H., Fabbri, O., Hagedorn, E-M., Preusser, F., Schmid, S.M. and Ziegler, P. 2010. Feedback between erosion and active deformation: geomorphic constraints from the frontal Jura fold-and-thrust belt (eastern France). International Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-009-0468-7
    • Madritsch, H., Preusser, F., Fabbri, O., Bichet, V., Schlunegger, F. and Schmid, S.M. 2010. Late Quaternary folding in the Jura Mountains: evidence from syn-erosional deformation of fluvial meanders. Terra Nova, 22(2), 147-154.
    • Matenco, L., Krézsek, C., Merten, S. Schmid, S.M., Cloetingh, S., Andriessen, P., 2010. Characteristics of collisional orogens with low topographic build-up: an example from the Carpathians. Terra Nova, 22, 155-165. (pdf)
    • Mutti, E., Bernoulli, D. Lucchi, F.R. and Tinterri, R. 2010. Reply to the Discussion by Ganapathy Shanmugam on "Turbidities and turbidity currents from Alpine flysch to the exploration of continental margins" by Mutti et al. (2009), Sedimentology, 56, 267-318. Sedimentology, 57(3), 933-934.
    • Schefer, S., Egli, D., Missoni, S., Bernoulli, D., Fügenschuh, B., Gawlick, H-J., Jovanovic, D., Krystyn, L., Lein, R., Schmid, S.M. and Sudar, M. 2010. Triassic metasediments in the internal Dinarides (Kopaonik area, southern Serbia): stratigraphy, paleogeographic and tectonic significante. Geologica Carpatica, 61, 89-109.
    • Ustaszewski, K., Kounov, A., Schmid, S., Schaltegger, U., Frank W., Krenn, E. and Fügenschuh, B. 2010. Cenozoic evolution of the Adria-Europe plate boundary along the northern Dinarides (Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia) – from continent-continent collision to back-arc extension. Tectonics, 29, TC6017, doi:10.1029/2010TC002668.
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  • 2009

    • Bernoulli, D. 2009. Rudolf Trumpy (1921-2009) OBITUARY. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98(7), 1557-1559.
    • Bernoulli, D. and Jenkyns, H. C. 2009. Ophiolites in ocean-continent transitions: From the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 341(5), 363-381.
    • Bernoulli, D. and Jenkyns, H. C. 2009. Ancient oceans and continental margins of the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys: deciphering clues from Mesozoic pelagic sediments and ophiolites. Sedimentology, 56(1), 149-190.
    • Bucher, S. and Schmid, S. 2009. Publication of a series of papers dealing with Seismic Source Characterization in Switzerland and adjacent areas. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102(1), 89-90.
    • Jarosinski, M., Poprawa, P. and Ziegler, P.A. 2009. Cenozoic dynamic evolution of the Polish Platform." Geological Quarterly 53(1): 3-26.
    • Kounov, A., Viola, G., de Wit, M.J. and Andreoli, M. 2009. Denudation along the Atlantic passive margin: New insights from apatite fission-track analysis on the western coast of South Africa. In: Lisker, F., Ventura, B. and Glasmacher, U. (eds.): Thermochronological methods: from paleotemperature constraints to landscape evolution models. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 324, 287-306.
    • Madritsch, H., Kounov, A., Schmid, S.M. and Fabbri, O. 2009. Multiple fault reactivation within the intra-continental Rhine-Bresse Transfer Zone (La Serre Horst, Eastern France). Tectonophysics , 471, 297-318.
    • McKenzie, J. A., Bernoulli, D. and Cita, M.B. 2009. Preface. Sedimentology, 56(1), 1-2.
    • McKenzie, J.A., Bernoulli, D.and Cita, M.B. 2009. Major Discoveries in Sedimentary Geology in the Mediterranean Realm from a Historical Perspective to New Developments. Sedimentology, Sedimentology, 56(1), 267-318.
    • Mutti, E., Bernoulli, D. Lucchi, F.R. and Tinterri, R. 2009. Turbidites and turbidity currents from Alpine 'flysch' to the exploration of continental margins. Sedimentology, 56(1), 267-318.
    • Schmid, S. M. 2009. "Rudolf Trumpy (1921-2009): scientific achievements of an outstanding personality with a life-long commitment to teaching and research in geology. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102(3), 375-382.
    • Schmid, S. M. and Slejko, D. 2009. Seismic source characterization of the Alpine foreland in the context of a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis by PEGASOS Expert Group 1 (EG1a). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102(1), 121-148.
    • Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S., Lugović, B., Schuster, R., Schaltegger, U., Fügenschuh, B., Kounov, A., Bernoulli, D., Hottinger, L., Schefer, S., 2009. Late Cretaceous intra-oceanic magmatism in the internal Dinarides (northern Bosnia and Herzegovina): Implications for the collision of the Adriatic and European plates. Lithos, special issue "Balkan Ophiolites", A. Robertson, S. Karamata, K. Resimić-Šarić (Eds.), 108, 1-4, 106-125.
    • Wiederkehr, M., Sudo, M., Bousquet, R., Berger, A. and Schmid, S. M. 2009, Alpine orogenic evolution from subduction to collisional thermal overprint: The Ar-40/Ar-39 age constraints from the Valaisan Ocean, central Alps, Tectonics, 28, TC6009, doi: 10.1029/2009TC002496.
    • Ziegler, P. A. and Fraefel, M. 2009. Response of drainage systems to Neogene evolution of the Jura fold-thrust belt and Upper Rhine Graben. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102(1), 57-75.
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  • 2008

    • Bousquet R., Oberhänsli R., Goffé B., Wiederkehr M., Koller F., Schmid S. M., Schuster R., Engi M., Berger A. and Martinotti G. 2008. Metamorphism of metasediments at the scale of an orogen: A key to the Tertiary geodynamic evolution of the Alps. In: Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System (Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N. Eds). Geological Society, London, Special Publications 298, 393-412.
    • Burg, J. P., Bernoulli, D. Smit, J., Dolati, A. and Bahroudi, A. 2008. A giant catastrophic mud-and-debris flow in the Miocene Makran. Terra Nova, 20(3), 188-193.
    • Ciulavu, M., Ferreiro Maehlmann, R., Schmid, S.M., Hofmann, H., Seghedi, A. & Frey, M. (2008). Metamorphic evolution of a very low- to low-grade metamorphic core complex (Danubian window) in the South Carpathians. In: Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System. Siegesmund, S., Fuegenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N. (Eds). Geological Society, London, Special Publications 298, 281-315.
    • Froitzheim, N. and Schmid, S. M. 2008. Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone Preface to the Special Issue of the Swiss Journal of Geosciences devoted to "Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone". Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101, 1-3.
    • Gröger, H. R., Fügenschuh, B., Tischler, M., Schmid S. M. and Foeken J. P. T. 2008. Tertiary cooling and exhumation history in the Maramures area (internal eastern Carpathians, northern Romania): thermochronology and structural data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 298, 169-195.
    • Herwegh, M., Hurzeler, J. P. Pfiffner, O.A., Schmid, S.M., Abart, R. and Ebert, A. 2008. The Glarus thrust: excursion guide and report of a field trip of the Swiss Tectonic Studies Group (Swiss Geological Society, 14.-16. 09. 2006). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(2), 323-340.
    • Hürzeler, J.-P. and Abart, R. 2008. Fluid flow and rock alteration along the Glarus thrust. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(2). 251-268.
    • Kounov, A., Viola, G., de Wit, M.J. and Andreoli, M. 2008. Mid Cretaceous paleo-Karoo River valley across the Knersvlakte (NW coast of South Africa): Evidence from apatite fission-track analysis. South African Journal of Geology, 111, 409-420.
    • Krenn, E., Ustaszewski, K. and Finger, F. 2008. Detrital and newly formed metamorphic monazite in amphibolite-facies metapelites from the Motajica Massif, Bosnia. Chemical Geology, 254(3-4), 164-174.
    • Laubscher, H. 2008. 100 years Jura décollement hypothesis: how it affects Steinmann’s (1892) “Schwarzwaldlinie”. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 97(6), 1231-1245.
    • Laubscher, H. 2008. The Grenchenberg conundrum in the Swiss Jura: a case for the centenary of the thin-skin décollement nappe model (Buxtorf 1907). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(1). 41-60.
    • Madritsch, H., Schmid, S. M. and Fabbri, O. 2008. Interactions between thin- and thick-skinned tectonics at the northwestern front of the Jura fold-and-thrust belt (Eastern France). Tectonics, 27(5), TC5005, 10.1029/2008TC002282.
    • Schmid, S.M., Benoulli, D., Fügenschuh, B., Matenco, L., Schefer, S., Schuster, R., Tischler, M. & Ustaszewski, K. 2008. The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(1), 139-183.
    • Schmid, S. M., Mancktelow, N. Mosar, J., Pfiffner, O.A. and Schaer, J.P. 2008. Modern methods in Structural Geology and Tectonics: a series of articles in honour of Martin Burkhard (1957-2006). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(2), 245-249.
    • Tischler, M., Matenco, L., Filipescu, S., Groeger, H. R., Wetzel, A. and Fuegenschuh B. 2008. Tectonics and sedimentation during convergence of the ALCAPA and Tisza-Dacia continental blocks; the Pienide Nappe emplacement and its foredeep (N. Romania) (In Siegesmund, S., Fuegenschuh, B. and Froitzheim, N. (eds): Tectonic aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian system) Geological Society Special Publications, 298, 317-334.
    • Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S. M. Fuegenschuh, B, Tischler, M., Kissling, E . and Spakman, W. 2008. A map-view restoration of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic system for the Early Miocene. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101, 273-294.
    • Wiederkehr, M., Bousquet, R., Schmid, S. M. and Berger, A. 2008. 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. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101, 127-155.
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  • 2007

    • Bernoulli, D., Brun, J.-P. and Burg, J.-P. 2007. Continental extension; Introduction. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96: 977-978. 
    • Bernoulli, D., Hottinger, L., Spezzaferri, S. and Stille, P. 2007. Miocene shallow-water limestones from São Nicolau (Cabo Verde): Caribbean-type benthic fauna and time constraints for volcanism. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 100: 215-225.
    • Bucher, S & Bousquet, R. 2007. Metamorphic evolution of the Briançonnais Units along the ECORS-CROP profile (Western Alps): new data on metasedimentary rocks. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 100: 227-242.
    • Cloetingh, S. & Ziegler, P.A. 2007. Tectonic Model for the Evolution of Sedimentary Basins. In: Treaties in Geophysics, G. Schubert (Ed.), Volume 6, Crustal and Lithosphere Dynamics, A.B. Watts (Ed.). Elsevier. pp 485-611.
    • Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., Ziegler, P.A. , P.J.F. Bogaard, P.A.M. Andriessen, I.M. Artemieva, G. Bada, R.T. van Balen, F. Beekman, Z. Ben-Avraham, J.-P. Brun, H.P. Bunge, E.B. Burov, R. Carbonell, C. Facenna, A. Friedrich, J. Gallart, A.G. Green, O. Heidbach, A.G. Jones, L. Matenco, J. Mosar, O. Oncken, C. Pascal, G. Peters, S. Sliaupa, A. Soesoo, W. Spakman, R.A. Stephenson, H. Thybo, T. Torsvik, G. de Vicente, F. Wenzel, M.J.R. Wortel & TOPO-EUROPE Working Group 2007. TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes. Global and Planetary Change, V. 58, Issues 1-4, P. 1-118.
    • Djeric, N., Gerzina, N. & Schmid, S.M. 2007. Age of the Jurassic radiolarian chert formation from the Zlatar mountain (SW Serbia). Ofioliti 32, 101-108.
    • Hinsken, S., Ustaszewski, K. & Wetzel, A. 2007. Graben width controlling syn-rift sedimentation: the Palaeogene southern Upper Rhine Graben as example. International Journal of Earth Sciences 96: 979-1002.
    • Kounov, A., Niedermann, S., de Wit, M.J., Viola, G., Andreoli, M. and Erzinger, J. 2007. Present denudation rates at selected sections of the South African escarpment and the elevated continental interior based on cosmogenic ³He and ²¹Ne. South African Journal of Geology. 110: 235-248. doi:10.2113/gssajg.110.2/3.235.
    • Marton, E., Tischler, M., Csontos, L., Fügenschuh, B. & Schmid, S.M. 2007. The contact zone between the ALCAPA and Tisza-Dacia mega-toctonic units of Northern Romania in the light of new paleomagnetic data. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 100, 109-124.
    • Matenco, L., Bertotti, G., Leever K., Cloetingh, S., Schmid, S. M., Tarapoanca, M. & Dinu, C. 2007. Large-scale deformation in a locked collisional boundary: Interplay between subsidence and uplift, intraplate stress, and inherited lithospheric structure in the late stage of the SE Carpathians evolution. Tectonics, 26, TC4011, doi:10.1029/2006TC001951.
    • Tischler, M., Gröger, H.R., Fügenschuh, B. & Schmid, S.M. 2007. Miocene tectonics of the Maramures area (Northern Romania): implications for the Mid-Hungarian fault zone. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 96, 473-496.
    • Ustaszewski, K. and Schmid, S.M. 2007. Latest Pliocene to recent thick-skinned tectonics at the Upper Rhine Graben - Jura Mountains junction. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 100(2): 293-312.
    • Ziegler, P.A. and Dèzes, P. 2007: Neogene uplift of Variscan Massifs in the Alpine foreland: Timing and controlling mechanisms. Global and Planetary Change 58, Issues 1-4: 237-269.
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  • 2006

    • Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Cornu, T., Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M., Dèzes, P., Hinsch, R., Decker, K., Lopes Cardozo, G., Granet, M., Bertrand, G., Behrmann, J., Michon, L., Pagnier, H., Rozsa, S., Heck, B., Kahle, H.-G., Winter, T., Dewez, T., Tesauro, M. 2006: Neotectonics and intraplate continental topography of the northern Alpine Foreland. Earth-Science Reviews, 74 (3-4): p. 127-196, DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.06.001.
    • Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Beekman, F., Andriessen, P.A.M., Hardebol, N., Van Wijk, J., Dèzes, P., 2006: Thermo-mechanical controls on Alpine deformation of NW Europe. In: Gee, D.A. and Stephenson, R.A. (Eds.), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs 32, 113–127.
    • Keller, L. M., Fügenschuh, B., Hess, M., Schneider, B. & Schmid, S.M. 2006: Simplon fault zone in the western and central Alps: Mechanism of Neogene faulting and folding revisited. Geology 34/4, 317–320.
    • Kissling, E., Schmid, S.M., Lippitsch,R., Ansorge, J. & Fügenschuh,B. 2006: Lithosphere structure and tectonic evolution of the Alpine arc: new evidence from high-resolution teleseismic tomography. In: Gee, D.G. & Stephenson R.A. (eds), European Lithosphere Dynamics Geological Society of London Memoirs 32, 129-145.
    • Manatschal, G., Engström, A.., Desmurs, L., Schaltegger, U., Cosca, M., Müntener, O., Bernoulli, D. 2006: What is the tectono-metamorphic evolution of continetal break-up: The example of the Tasna Ocean-Continent Transition. J. Struct. Geol. 28: 1849-1869.
    • Narkiewicz, M. and Ziegler, P.A. 2006: Editors of Special Issue „ Poland: junction of the main geological provinces of Europe “Geological Quarterly, 50th anniversary volume. 50/1, 210pp.
    • Narkiewicz, M. and Ziegler, P.A., 2006: Poland: junction of the main geological provinces of Europe, INTRODUCTION “ in Narkiewicz, M. and Ziegler, P.A. (editors), 50th anniversary volume. Geological Quarterly, 50/1, 3-7.
    • Nivière, B., Giamboni, M., Innocent, C., and Winter, T. 2006: Kinematic evolution of a tectonic wedge above a flat-lying décollement: The Alpine foreland at the interface between the Jura Mountains (Northern Alps) and the Upper Rhine graben. Geology, 34: 469-472.
    • Timar-Geng, Z., Fügenschuh, B., Wetzel, A., and Dresmann, H., 2006: The low-temperature thermal history of northern Switzerland as revealed by fission track analysis and inverse thermal modelling. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 99: 255-270.
    • Timar-Geng, Z., Fügenschuh, B., Wetzel, A., and Dresmann, H. 2006: Low-tempertaure thermochronology of the flanks of the southern Upper Rhine Graben. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 95: 685-702.
    • Timar-Geng, Z., Fügenschuh, B., Schaltegger, U., and Wetzel, A. 2004: The impact of the Jurassic hydrothermal activity on zircon fission track data from the southern Upper Rhine Graben area. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 84: 257-269; publication in 2006.
    • Trullenque G., Kunze K., Heilbronner R., Stünitz H.& Schmid S.M. 2006: Microfabrics of calcite ultramylonites as records of coaxial and non-coaxial deformation kinematics: Examples from the Rocher de l'Yret shear zone (Western Alps), Tectonophysics 424, p. 69-97.
    • Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M. 2006: Control of pre-existing faults on geometry and kinematics in the northernmost part of the Jura fold-and-thrust belt. Tectonics 25, TC5003, DOI:10.1029/2005TC001915.
    • Ziegler, P.A. & Dèzes, P., 2006: Crustal Evolution of Western and Central Europe. In: D. Gee and R.A. Stephenson (Editors), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 43–56.
    • Ziegler, P.A., Schumacher, M., Dèzes, P., van Wees, J.D. and Cloetingh Sierd, A.P.L. 2006: Post-Orogenic Evolution of the Variscan Lithosphere in the Area of the European Cenozoic Rift System. In: D. Gee and R.A. Stephenson (Editors), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 97–112.
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  • 2005

    • Behrmann, J.H., Ziegler, P.A., Schmid, S.M., Heck, B. Granet, M., 2005: Editors of Special Issue „EUCOR-URGENT – Upper Rhine Graben Evolution and Neotectonics“.Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 94/4, 778pp.
    • Bernoulli, D., 2005: Dedication to Wolfgang Schlager. Sedimentary Geology 175, 1-2.
    • Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Beekman, F., Andriessen, P.A.M., Matenco, L., Bada, G., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Hardebol, N., Dèzes, P., Sokoutis, D., 2005: Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: neotectonic controls on Europe's intraplate continental topography. in Cloetingh S. & Cornu T. (eds.) "Neotectonics and Quarternary Fault Reactivation in Europe’s Intraplate Lirhosphere". Elsevier, 280 pages. 
    • Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Beekman, F., Andriessen, P.A.M., Matenco, L., Bada, G., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Hardebol, N., Dèzes, P., Sokoutis, D., 2005: Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: neotectonic controls on Europe's intraplate continental topography. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 24/3-4, p. 241-304.
    • Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Beekmann, F., Andriessen, P.A.M., Hardebol, N., Dèzes, P., 2005: Intraplate deformation and 3D rheological structure of the Rhine Rift System and ajacent areas in the northern alpine foreland. In: J.H. Behrmann, M. Granet, S. Schmid and P.A. Ziegler (Editors), EUCOR-URGENT Special Issue. International Journal of Earth Sciences 94/4, 758 – 778.
    • Cloetingh, S., Cornu, T., Ziegler, P.A., Beekman, F. and  Environmental Tectonics (ENTEC) Working Group (including amongst others: K. Ustaszewski, S.M. Schmid, P. Dèzes), 2005: Neotectonics and intraplate continental topography of the northern Alpine foreland. Earth Science Reviews. PDF on-line at www.sciencedirect.com.
    • Dèzes, P., Schmid, S. and Ziegler, P.A., 2005: Reply to comments by L. Michon and O. Merle on “Evolution of the European Cenozoic Rift System: interaction of the Alpine and Pyrenean orogens with their foreland lithosphere”. Tectonophysics, V. 401, Issues 3-4, Pages 257-262.
    • Eberli, G.P.,  Anselmetti, F.S., Betzler, C., Van Konijnenburg, J.-H. & Bernoulli, D., 2005: Carbonate platform to basin transitions on seismic data and in outcrops: Great Bahama Bank and the Maiella platform margin, Italy. AAPG Memoir 81, 207-250.
    • Fügenschuh, B. & Schmid, S.M., 2005: Age and significance of core complex formation in avery curved orogen: Evidence from fission track studies in the South Carpathians (Romania). Tectonophysics 404, 33-53.
    • Keller, L.M., Hess, M., Fügenschuh, B. & Schmid, S.M., 2005: Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Camughera-Moncucco, Antrona and Monte Rosa units southwest of the Simplon line, Western Alps. Eclogae geol. Helv. 98/1, 19-49.
    • Keller, L. M., Abart, R., Schmid, S.M., De Capitani C., 2005: Phase relations and chemical composition of phengite and paragonite in pelitic schists during decompression: A case study from Monte Rosa nappe and Camughera - Moncucco unit, Western Alps. Journal of Petrology, 46, 2145-2166.
    • Keller, L. M., De Capitani C.,  Abart, R., 2005: A quaternary solution model for white micas based on natural coexisting phengite-paragonite pairs. Journal of Petrology, 46, 2145-2166.
    • Laubscher, H. 2006. Zur Geologie des Erdbebens von Basel 1356. In: W. Meyer, “Da verfiele Basel überall”, 184. Neujahrsblatt der GGG Basel, Schwabe Verlag Basel, p. 207-230.
    • Laubscher, H., 2005: Ein neues Konzept für das Verhalten der eozänen Tafeljuragräben bei der spätmiozänen Jurafaltung: Der Therwil-Witterswil-Dittingen-Grabenzug (bei Basel/Schweiz) als Muster der Grabenverfaltung. Mitt. Naturforsch. Ges. beider Basel 8,167-180.
    • Laubscher, H., 2005: Zur Geologie der Gegend von Bennwil (Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Schweiz). Mitt. Naturforsch. Ges. beider Basel 8, 155-166.
    • Neuweiler, F. & Bernoulli, D., 2005: Mesozoic (Lower Jurassic) red stromatactis limestones from the Southern Alps (Arzo, Switzerland): calcite mineral authigenesis and syneresis-type deformation. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 94, 130-149. 
    • Picot, L., D. Becker, F. Lapaire, K. Ustaszewski, W.A. Hug, and J.P. Berger, 2005. Sédimentologie, paléontologie et paléoenvironnements côtiers de la région de Porrentruy (Sud-Rhénan, Paléogène, Jura, Suisse): implications géodynamiques, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 98, 281-296, DOI: 10.1007/s00015-005-1154-9.
    • Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B., Kissling, E. & Schuster, R. (2005). Reply to Comment by W. Kurz on “Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen”. Eclogae geol. Helv. 98, 99–101.
    • Schmid, S.M. (2005). Laudatio für PD Dr. Claudio Rosenberg, Hans-Cloos Preis der Geologischen Vereinigung (Strasbourg, September 2004). Int. J. Earth Sci 94: 5-6.
    • Timar-Geng, Z., Fügenschuh, B., Schaltegger, U. and Wetzel, A., 2003. The impact of the Jurassic hydrothermal activity on zircon fission track data from the southern Upper Rhine Graben area. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 84: 257-269. (2003, sowie 2004 nicht erwähnt).
    • Timar-Geng, Z., Fügenschuh, B., Wetzel, A., Dresmann, H. 2005. Low-temperature thermochronology of the flanks of the southern Upper Rhine Graben. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch), online first. 
    • Ustaszewski, K., M.E. Schumacher, S.M. Schmid, and D.A. Nieuwland, 2005. Fault reactivation in brittle-viscous wrench systems - dynamically scaled analogue models and application to the Rhine-Bresse Transfer Zone, in: Neotectonics and Quaternary Fault-reactivation in Europe's Intraplate Lithosphere (eds. S. Cloetingh and T. Cornu), pp. 363-380, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
    • Ustaszewski, K., M.E. Schumacher, and S.M. Schmid, 2005. Simultaneous normal faulting and extensional flexuring during rifting: an example from the southernmost Upper Rhine Graben, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 94, 680-696, doi: 10.1007/s00531-004-0454-z. 
    • Ziegler, P.A. and Dèzes, P., 2005: Evolution of the lithosphere in the area of the Rhine Rift System. In: J.H. Behrmann, M. Granet, S. Schmid and P.A. Ziegler (Editors), EUCOR-URGENT Special Issue. International Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 94, Number 4, P. 594 - 614.
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  • 2004

    • Bernoulli, D., Schaltegger, U., Stern, W.B., Frey, M., Caron; M. & Monechi, S. (2004). Volcanic ash layers in the Upper Cretaceous of the Central Apennines and a numerical age for the early Campanian. Internat. J. Earth Sci. 93, 384-399.
    • Bernoulli, D., Gasperini, L., Bonatti, E. & Stille, P. (2004). Dolomite formation in pelagic limestone and diatomite, Romanche Fracture Zone, Equatorial Atlantic. J. Sediment Res., 74, 924-932.
    • Bucher S., Ulardic, C., Bousquet R., Ceriani, S., Fügenschuh B. & Schmid, S. M., 2004. Tectonic evolution of the Briançonnais units along the ECORS-CROP transect through the Italian-French Western Alps, Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, 97, 321-345.
    • Cavazza, W., Roure, F.M., Spakman, W., Stampfli G.M. & Ziegler P.A. (2004). The TRANSMED Atlas: The Mediterranean Region from Crust to Mantle. Springer Verlag, 141p. and CD-ROM. (book editors).
    • Cavazza, W., Roure, F. & Ziegler, P.A. (2004). The Mediterranean Area and Surrounding Regions: Active Processes, Remnants of Former Tethyan Oceans and Related Thrust Belts. In: W. Cavazza, F.M. Roure, W. Spakman, G.M. Stampfli & P.A. Ziegler (eds.), TRANSMED Atlas: the Mediterranean Region from Crust to Mantle. Springer Verlag, pp.1-29.
    • Cavazza, W., Roure, F., Spakman, W., Stampfli, G.M., Ziegler, P.A. & TRANSMED Project Working Group (including B. Fügenschuh and S.M. Schmid from Basel) (2004). The TRANSMED Atlas: geological-geophysical fabric of the Mediterranean Region, Final Report of the Project. Episodes 27/ 4: 244-254.
    • Ceriani, S. and Schmid, S.M. (2004). From N-S collision to WNW-directed post-collisional thrusting and folding: structural study of the Frontal Penninic Units in Savoie (Western Alps, France). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, 97, 321-346.
    • Dèzes, P., Schmid, S. and Ziegler, P.A. (2004). Evolution of the European Cenozoic Rift System: Interaction of the Alpine and Pyrenean orogens with their foreland lithosphere. Tectonophysics, 389: 1-33.
    • Eberli, G., Anselmetti F.S. Betzler, C., van Konijnenburg, J.-H. & Bernoulli, D. (2004). Carbonate platform to basin transition on seismic data and in outcrop Great Bahama Bank and the Maiella platform margin, Italy. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 81, 207- 250.
    • Giamboni, M., Ustaszewski, K., Schmid, S.M., Schuhmacher, M.E. and Wetzel, A. (2004). Plio-Pleistocene transpressional reactivation of Paleozoic and Paleogene structures in the Rhine-Bresse transform zone (northern Switzerland and Eastern France). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 93: 207-223.
    • Giamboni, M., Wetzel, A., Nivière, B. and Schumacher, M. (2004). Plio-Pleistocene folding in the southern Rhinegraben recorded by the evolution of the drainage network (Sundgau area, northwestern Switzerland and France). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 97: 17-31.
    • Laubscher, H., 2004: The southern Rhine graben: A new view of the initial phase. Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundschau) 93, 341-347.
    • Schmid, S.M. (2004). The tectonic evolution of the European Alps. In: Earth Structure, an Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, second edition, by vanderPluijm, B.A. and Marshak, S. W. W. Norton & Co., New York, London, an essay on p. 510- 524.
    • Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B., Kissling, E. and Schuster, R. (2004). TRANSMED Transects IV, V and VI: Three lithospheric transects across the Alps and their forelands. In: Cavazza W, Roure F, Spakman W, Stampfli GM, and Ziegler PA (eds). The TRANSMED Atlas: The Mediterranean Region from Crust to Mantle. Springer Verlag.
    • Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B., Kissling, E. and Schuster, R. (2004). Tectonic map and overtall architecture of the Alpine orogen. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 97: 93-117.
    • Stipp, M., Fügenschuh, B., Gromet, L. P., Stünitz, H. & Schmid, S. M. (2004). Contemporaneous plutonism and strike-slip faulting: a case study from the Tonale fault zone north of the Adamello pluton (Italian Alps). Tectonics, 23, TC3004, doi:10.1029/2003TC001515.
    • Ziegler, P.A. (2004). Europe: Permian to Recent Evolution. In: Selley, R.C., Cocks, L.R., Plimer, I.R. (Editors). The Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier. pp.102-125.
    • Ziegler, P., Schumacher, M., Dèzes, P., van Wees, J.D. and Cloetingh, S. (2004): Post- Variscan evolution of the lithosphere in the Rhine Graben area: constraints from subsidence modelling. In: Wilson, M., Neumann, E-R, Davies, G.R., Heeremans, M. & Larsen, B.T. (eds.). Permo-Carboniferous Magmatism and Rifting in Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 223: 289-317.
    • Ziegler, P.A. and Cloetingh Sierd, A.P.L., (2004). Dynamic processes controlling evolution of rifted basins. Earth-Sciences Reviews, 64: 1-50.
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  • 2003

    • Bucher, S., Schmid, S.M., Bousquet, R. and Fügenschuh, B. (2003). Late-stage deformation in a collisional orogen (Western Alps): nappe refolding, back-thrusting or normal faulting? Terra Nova 15, 109-117.
    • Ceriani S., Fügenschuh B., Potel S. and Schmid S.M. (2003). Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Frontal Penninic units of the Western Alps: correlation between low-grade metamorphism and tectonic phases. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 83: 111-131.
    • Ceriani S., Mancktelow N. and Pennacchioni G. (2003). Analogue modelling of the influence of shape and particle/matrix interface lubrication on the rotational behaviour of rigid particles in simple shear. Journal of Structural Geology, 25: 2005-2021.
    • Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P., Cornu, T., Ustaszewski K., Schmid S., Dèzes, P. et al., (2003). Investigating environmental tectonics in the northern Alpine foreland of Europe. EOS 84/36, 4pp.
    • Fügenschuh, B. and Schmid, S.M. (2003). Late stages of deformation and exhumation of an orogen constrained by fission track data: A case study in the Western Alps. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115, 000-000 (pre-print).
    • Fügenschuh B., Froitzheim N., Capdevila R. and Boillot G. (2003). Offshore granulites from the Bay of Biscay margins: fission tracks constrain a Proterozoic to Tertiary thermal history. Terra Nova, 15, 337-342.
    • Hölker, A., Manatschal,, G., Holliger, K. and Bernoulli, D. (2002): The seismic nature and response of ocean-continent transition zones (OCT): a comparison of a fossil Tethyan and the present-day Iberian OCT. Marine Geophysical Researches, 23: 319-334. (published 2003)
    • Hölker, A., Manatschal, G., Holliger, K. and Bernoulli, D. (2003). Tectonic nature and seismic response of top-basement detachment faults in magma-poor rifted margins. Tectonics, 22: 9-1 9-15.
    • Kramer, J., Abart, R., Schmid, S. and Stern, W.B. (2003). Geochemistry of metabasalts from ophiolitic and adjacent distal continental margin units: Evidence from the Monte Rosa area (Swiss and Italian Alps). Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 83: 217-240.
    • Laubscher, H., (2003). A Jura perspective. Tectonics 22/6.
    • Laubscher, H. (2003). The Miocene dislocations in the northern foreland of the Alps: oblique subduction and ist consequences (Basel area, Switzerland-Germany). Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins, Neue Folge, 85: 423-439.
    • Manatschal, G.. Müntener, O., Desmurs, L. and Bernoulli, D. (2003). An ancient ocean-continent transition in the Alps: the Totalp, Err-Platta and Malenco units in the eastern Central Alps (Graubünden and northern Italy). Excursion of the Swiss Geological Society, September 20 to 24, 2002. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 96: 131-146.
    • Mutti, M. and Bernoulli, D. (2003). Early marine lithification and hardground development on a Miocene ramp (Maiella, Italy): key surfaces to track changes in trophic resources in non-tropical carbonate settings. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73: 296-308.
    • Schmid, S.M., Fügenschuh, B. and Lippitsch, R. (2003). The Western Alps - Eastern Alps transition: tectonics and deep structure. Mem.Sci.Geol., 257-260.
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  • 2002

    • Bousquet R., Goffé B., Vidal O., Patriat M., & Oberh 0nsli R. (2002). The tectono-metamorphic history of the Valaisan domain from the Western to the Central Alps : New constraints for the evolution of theAlps . GSA Bulletin, 114, 207-225
    • Laubscher H. (2002). Der geologische Bau der Gegend von Titterten und seine Geschichte (mit einer Exkursion). Mitt. Naturf. Ges. beider Basel, 6, 39-62.
    • Laubscher, H. (2002). Probleme der Transformation und Reaktivierung alter Strukturen: Die Klus von Tierstein im Jura als Beispiel. Eclogae geol. Helv., 94, 351-362.
    • Nagel, T., de Capitani, C., Frey, M., Froitzheim, N., Stünitz, H. & Schmid, S.M. (2002). Structural and metamorphic evolution during rapid exhumation in the Lepontine dome (Southern Simano l and Adula nappes, Central Alps, Switzerland ). Eclogae geol. Helv., 95, 301-321.
    • Nikishin, A.M., Ziegler, P.A., Abbott, D., Brunet, M.-F., Cloetingh, S. (2002). Permo-Triassic intraplate magmatism and rifting in Eurasis: implications for mantle plumes and mantle dynamics. Tectonophysics 351, 1-19.
    • Schumacher, M. E. (2002). Upper RhineGraben: Role of preexisting structures during rift evolution, Tectonics, 21(1), 10.1029/2001TC900022, 2002.
    • Stipp, M., Stünitz, H., Heilbronner, R. & Schmid, S. M. (2002). Dynamic recrystallization of quartz: correlation between natural and experimental deformation conditions. In: Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future Perspectives (edited by de Meer, S., Drury, M. R., de Bresser, J. H. P. & Pennock, G. M.). Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 200, 171-190.
    • Stipp, M., Stünitz, H., Heilbronner, R. & Schmid, S.M. (2002). The eastern Tonale fault zone: a "natural laboratory" for crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from 250 to 700°C. J. Structural Geology, 24, 1861-1884.
    • Ziegler, P.A., Bertotti, G. & Cloetingh, S. (2002). Dynamic processes controlling foreland development - the role of mechanical (de)coupling of orogenic wedges and forelands. In: G. Bertotti, K. Schulmann, S. Cloetingh (Eds.), Continental Collision and the Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of Forelands. Europ. Geophys. Soc. Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series 1, 17-56.
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  • 2001

    • Bernoulli, D. & Gunzenhauser, B. (2001). A dolomitized diatomite in an Oligocene- Miocene deep-sea fan succession, Gonfolite Lombarda Group, northern Italy. Sedimentary Geology, 139, 71-91.
    • Ceriani, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Schmid, S.M. (2001). Multi-stage thrusting at the "Penninic Front" in the Western Alps between Mont Blanc and Pelvoux massifs. Int. J. Earth Sciences (Geol. Rundschau), 90, 685-702.
    • Desmurs, L., Manatschal, G. & Bernoulli, D. (2001). The Steinemann Trinity revisited: mantle exhumation and magmatism along an ocean-continent transition: the Platta nappe, easternSwitzerland . Geological Society Special Publications, 187, 235-266.
    • Handy, M.R., Braun, J., Brown, M., Kukowski, N., Paterson, M.S., Schmid, S.M., Stöckhert, B., Stüwe, K., Thompson, A.B. & Wisnitza, E. ( 2001). Rheology and geodynamic modelling: the next step forward. Int. J. Earth Sciences, 90, 149-156.
    • Keller, L. M., & Schmid, S. M . (2001).On the kinematics of shearing near the top of the Monte Rosa nappe and the nature of the Furgg zone in Val Loranco (Antrona valley, N. Italy ): tectonometamorphic and paleogeographical consequences. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt. 81, 347-367.
    • Laubscher H. (2001). Plate interactions at the southern end of the Rhine graben. Tectonophysics, 343, 1-19.
    • Ziegler, P.A. and Wimmenauer, W. (2001). Possible glaciomarine diamictites in Siluro-Ordovician series of the southernBlack Forest (Germany ). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Mh., (8): 500-512.
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  • 2000

    • Fügensschuh, B., Mancktelow, N.S. & Seward, D. (2000). Cretaceous to Neogene cooling and exhumation history of the Oetztal-Stubai basement complex, easternAlps: a structural and fission track study. Tectonics 19, 905-918.
    • Schmid, S.M. & Kissling, E. (2000). The arc of theWestern Alpsin the light of geophysical data on deep crustal structure. Tectonics, 19, 62-85.
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  • 1999

    • Fügenschuh, B., Loprieno, A., Ceriani, S. & Schmid. S.M. (1999). Structural analysis of the Subbriançonnais and Valais units in the area of Moûtiers ( Savoy ,Western Alps): paleogeographic and tectonic consequences. Int. Journ. Earth Sciences 88, 201-218.
    • Matenco, L. & Schmid, S. (1999). Exhumation of the Danubian nappes system ( lSouth Carpathians) during the Early Tertiary: inferences from kinematic and paleostress analysis at the Getic/Danubian nappes contact. Tectonophysics 314(4), 401-422.
    • Nikishin, A.M., Ziegler, P.A., Stephenson, R.A. & Ustinova, M.A. (1999). Santonian to Paleocene tectonics of the East-European craton and adjacent areas. Bull. Inst. Sciences Naturelles Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 69-Supp.A, 147-159.
    • Schmid, S.M. (1999). Laudatio: Tribute to Rudolf Trümpy concerning awarding of the Steinmann Medal. Int. Journ. Earth Sciences 88, 169-171.
    • Schmid, S.M., Heilbronner, R. & Stünitz H. (1999). Deformation mechanisms in nature and experiment (editorial remarks). Tectonophysics 303, vii-ix.
    • Ziegler, P.A. , F. (1999) Petroleum systems of Alpine-Mediterranean foldbelts and basins. In: The Mediterranean Basins: Tertiary Extension within the Alpine Orogen. (Ed. by Durand, B., Jolivet, L., Horvàth, F. and Séranne, M.). Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. London 156, 517-540.
    • Ziegler, P.A., Van Wees, J.-D. & Cloetingh, S. (1998). Mechanical controls on collision-related compressional intraplate deformation. Tectonophysics 300, 103-129.
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  • 1998

    • Froitzheim, N. (1998). Drilling reveals transition from continental breakup to early magmatic crust. EOC, Transactions, AGU, 173, 180-181.
    • Fügenschuh, B., Seward, D. & Mancktelow, N. (1998). Exhumation in a convergent orogen: the western Tauern window. Terra Nova, 9, 213-217.
    • Fügenschuh, B., Froitzheim, N. & Boillot, G. (1998). Cooling history of granulite samples from the ocean-continent transition of the Galizia margin: implications for rifting. Terra Nova, 10, 96-100.
    • Meyre, Ch., Marquer, D., Schmid, S.M. and Ciancarleoni, L., (1998). Syn-orogenic extension along the Forcola fault. Eclogae geol. Helv., 91, 409-420.
    • Schmid, S.M., Berza, T., Diaconescu, V., Froitzheim, N. and Fügenschuh, B., (1998). Orogen-parallel extension in the Southern Carpathians . Tectonophysics, 297, 209-228.
    • Ziegler, P.A. (1998). Collisional intraplate deformation. GFF, 120, 249-256.
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  • 2010

    • Senecio Schefer, 2010.

  • 2008

    • Herfried Madritsch, 2008. (Universität Basel und Franche Comté): Structural evolution and neotectonics of the Rhine-Bresse Transfer Zone”. Dissertationsleiter: Prof. S.M. Schmid (Universität Basel) & Prof. O. Fabbri (Université de Franche Comté); Koreferenten: Prof. O. Lacombe (Paris), Prof. J. Mosar (Fribourg); Experten: Prof. O. Bellier (Aix-en-Provence) PD Dr. F. Preusser (Bern); Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. A. Wetzel (Basel).
    • Hinsken Sebastian, 2008. Upper Rhine Graben: quantitative aspects of rifting and syn-rift sedimentation with focus on the Palaeogene series in the southern part. Dissertationsleiter: Prof. A. Wetzel (Basel); Koreferenten: Dr. S. Schmalholz (ETH-Zürich), Prof. C. Meyer (Basel). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. S. Schmid (Basel)
    • Fraefel Marielle, 2008. Geomorphic response to neotectonic activity in the Jura Mountains and the southern Upper Rhine Graben”. Dissertationsleiter und Referent: Prof. S. Schmid (Basel); Koreferent: Prof. A.L. Densmore (Durham University). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. P. Huggenberger (Basel).

  • 2007

    • Dresmann Horst, 2007. Fission-Track analyses in the area of the southern Upper Rhine Graben. 98pp. Dissertationsleiter/Fakultätsverantwortlicher: Prof. A. Wetzel; Koreferenten: Prof. B. Fügenschuh (Innsbruck); Prüfungsvorsitzender: Prof. S. Schmid. Externer Experte: PD Dr. U. Glasmacher (Heidelberg).

  • 2006

    • Gröger Heike R., 2006. Thermal and structural evolution of the East Carpathinas in northern Romania: from Cretaceous orogeny to final exhumation during Miocene collision. Fakultätsverantwortliche, Dissertationsleiter und Referenten: Prof. S. Schmid, Prof. Dr. B. Fügenschuh und Prof. A.Wetzel; Korreferent: PD Dr. L. Matenco (Amsterdam). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. R. Heilbronner.

  • 2005

    • Timar-Geng Zoltan, 2005. Post-Variscan thermal evolution of the flanks of the southern Upper Rhine Graben: fission track analyses and thermal modelling. Fakultätsverantwortlicher, Dissertationsleiter und Referenten: Prof. A. Wetzel und PD Dr. B. Fügenschuh; Koreferent: PD Dr. M. Rahn (HSK Villigen). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. R. Heilbronner.
    • Tischler Matthias, 2005. A combined structural and sedimentological study of the Inner Carpathians at the northern rim of the Transylvanian basin (N. Romania). Fakultätsverantwortliche, Dissertationsleiter und Referenten: Prof. S. Schmid, Prof. A.Wetzel und PD Dr. B. Fügenschuh; Korreferent: Prof. L. Csontos (Budapest). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. C. De Capitani.
    • Trullenque Ghislain, 2005. Tectonic and microfabric studies along the Penninic Front between Pelvoux and Argentera massifs (Western Alps, France). Fakultätsverantwortliche, Dissertationsleiter und Referenten: Prof. S. Schmid, Prof. R. Heilbronner und PD Dr. B. Fügenschuh; Koreferenten: Prof. P. Tricart (Grenoble) und Dr. K. Kunze (ETH zürich). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. Ch. De Capitani.
    • Waite Katherine, 2005. Low-grade metamorphism and fission track analysis in the Main Cordillera of the Andes – Central Chile 35° South. Fakultätsverantwortlicher : Prof. S. Schmid; Dissertationsleiter und Referent: PD Dr, B. Fügenschuh; Koreferentinnen: PD Dr. S. Schmidt (Genève), Dr. D. Seward (ETH Zürich). Prüfungsvorsitzender: Prof. Ch. De Capitani.
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  • 2004

    • Keller Lukas, 2004. Beziehungen zwischen Metamorphose und Deformation: Beispiele aus der Camughera-Moncucco Einheit und Monte Rosa Decke (Westalpen). Fakultätsverantwortliche/ Disserationsleiter: Profs. S. Schmid und R. Abart. Korreferent: Dr. A. Berger (Bern). Prüfungsvorsitzender: Prof. C. de Capitani.
    • Ustaszewski Kamil, 2004. Reactivation of pre-existing crustal discontinuities: the Upper Rhine Graben and the Northern Jura - a natural laboratory. Referenten: Profs. S. Schmid und P. Ziegler. Korreferent: Prof. J. Behrmann (Freiburg i.B.). Prüfungsvorsitz: Prof. A. Wetzel.

  • 2003

    • Bucher Stefan, 2003. The Briançonnais units along the ECORS-CROP transect (Italian-French Alps): structures, metamorphism and geochronology, Referent: Prof. S. Schmid; Korreferent: Prof. Igor Villa (Univ. Bern), Examinatoren: Dr. Romain Bousquet, Dr. B. Fügenschuh.

  • 2002

    • Giamboni Marzio, 2002 Neotectonics and paleohydrography of the SouthernUpper Rhinegraben (Ajoie and Sundgau Area). Referenten: Prof. Dr. A. Wetzel und Prof. Dr. S.M. Schmid; Korreferent: Prof. Dr. F. Schlunegger (Univ. Bern)
    • Kramer Julia, 2002. Strukturelle Entwicklung der penninischen Einheiten im Monte Rosa Gebiet (Schweizer und italienische Alpen). Referent: Prof. Dr. S.M. Schmid und Prof. Dr. R. Abart; Korreferent: Prof. Dr. N. Mancktelow (ETH Zürich).
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  • 2001

    • Ceriani Stefano, 2001. A combined study of structure and metamorphism in the frontal Penninic units between the Arc and Isère valleys ( Western Alps ): implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Western Alps . Referent: Prof. Dr. S.M. Schmid; Korreferent: Prof. Dr. D. Marquer (Univ. Besançon); Examinator: Dr. B. Fügenschuh.
    • Loprieno Andrea, 2001. A combined structural and sedimentological approach to decipher the evolution of the Valais domain in Savoy (Western Alps). Referent: Prof. S. M. Schmid; Korreferenten: Prof. Dr. W. Winkler (ETH Zürich), Dr. S. Fudral (Univ. Chambéry); Examinator: Dr. B. Fügenschuh.
    • Potel Sebastien, 2001. Very Low Grade Metamorphism of Northern New Caledonia . Referent: PD Dr. S. Th. Schmidt; Korreferenten: Prof. Dr. W. Stern, Dr. B. Fügenschuh.
    • Stipp Michael, 2001. Dynamic Recrystallization of Quartz in Fault Rocks from the Eastern Tonale Linie (Italian Alps ). Referenten: PD Dr. H. Stünitz, PD Dr. R. Heilbronner, Prof. Dr. S. M. Schmid; Korreferent; Prof. Dr. B. Stöckhert (Univ. Bochum).

  • 2000

    • Nagel Thorsten, 2000. Metamorphic and structural history of the southern Adula nappe ( Graubünden,Switzerland). Referent:Prof. Dr. Ch. de Capitani; Korreferenten:Prof. Dr. M. Engi (Univ. Bern ), Prof. Dr. S. Schmid.

  • 1998

    • Van Daalen Mirjam, 1998. Microfabric analysis of naturally deformed quartz veins deformed near the brittle-ductile transition (examples from the Glarus Alps and the chlinig fault. Referent/Innen: Frau PD Dr, Heilbronner, Prof. S. Schmid. Korreferent: Prof. E.H. Rutter (Univ. of Manchester, UK).
    • Weh Markus, 1998. Tektonische Entwicklung der penninischen Sediment-Decken in Graubünden (Pr 0ttigau bis Oberhalbstein). Referenten: PD Dr. N. Froitzheim & Prof. S. Schmid. Korreferent: Prof. Dr. N. Mancktelow, ETH Zürich).
    • Kruse Robert, 1998. Recrystallization and deformation mechanisms in mafic high temperature mylonites from the Jotun nappe ( S. Norway) and the Ivrea Zone ( N. Italy). Referenten: PD Dr. H. Stünitz and Prof. S. Schmid. Korreferent: Dr. D. Mainprice (Montpellier, France).
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  • 2008

    • Egli Daniel, 2008. Das Kopaonik-Gebirge in Serbien. Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Schmid, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Fügenschuh (pdf)

  • 2006

    • Gutweninger Matthias, 2006. Deformation und Metamorphose im Gruf-Komplex (1), Val Codera, Italien. Betreuung: Prof. S. Schmid, Dr. R. Bousquet.

  • 2005

    • Schefer Senecio, 2005. Deformation und Metamorphose im Gruf-Komplex (2), Val Codera, Italien. Betreuung: Prof. S. Schmid, Dr. R. Bousquet (pdf)
    • Seiler Christian, 2005. Strukturen und Metamorphosse am Übergang Sesia-Zone-Piemont-Luguria-Zone im Zusammenhang mit dem östlichen Ende der Aosta-Ranzola Störung. Betreuung: PD Dr. H. Stünitz und PD Dr. B. Fügenschuh

  • 2002

    • Bacher Corinne, 2002. Strukturen und Metamorphose in der Furggzone (Furggtal bei Saas Almagell, Wallis). Betreuer: Prof. Dr. M. Frey, Prof. Dr. S.M. Schmid und Prof. Dr. Ch. De Capitani.

  • 2001

    • Wyss Adrian, 2001. Apatit Spaltspur Untersuchungen in der Vorwaldscholle (SW-Deutschland). Geologische Kartierung zwischen Raitbach und Hasel (Südschwarzwald) Betreuer: Prof. A. Wetzel, Dr. B. Fügenschuh.
    • Ulardic Christina, 2001. Strukturgeologische und petrographische Untersuchungen im Valgrisenche (Briançonnais der italienischen Alpen). Betreuer: Prof. S. Schmid, Prof. J. Tipper (Univ. Freiburg i.B.), S. Bucher.
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  • 2000

    • Damo Matthias, 2000. Geologie und Petrographie des Cressim. Betreuer: Prof. M. Frey, Prof. Dr. S. Schmid, PD Dr.   R. Hänny, PD Dr. J. Mullis.
    • Jeker Oliver, 2000. Strukturen und Metamorphose der oberen Val Grono (südliche Adula), Teil 1. Betreuer: Prof. Dr. M. Frey, Prof. Dr. S. Schmid, PD Dr  R. H 0nny, PD Dr. J. Mullis.
    • Keller Lukas, 2000. Kinematik der duktilen Scherung an der Front der Monte Rosa Decke (Val Loranco, Italien). 74 Seiten. Betreuer: Prof. Dr. S. Schmid, Prof. Dr. N. Froitzheim, Prof. Dr. M. Frey.
    • Niederberger Beat, 2000. Strukturen und Metamorphose der oberen Val Grono (südliche Adula), Teil 2. Betreuer: Prof. Dr. M. Frey, Prof. Dr. S. Schmid, PD Dr. R. H 0nny, PD Dr. J. Mullis.
    • Rössler Christiane, 2000. Transport und Faltung in der Furgg Zone und in den angrenzenden Einheiten (südliches Saastal, Wallis, Schweiz). Betreuer: Prof. Dr. S. Schmid, Prof. Dr. N. Froitzheim, Prof. Dr. M. Frey.
    • Frischbutter Andreas, 2000. Strukturgeologische Analyse im Bereich der südlichen Grenzzone zwischen Simano- und Adula-Decke (Südliches Valle Mesolcina, Graubünden, CH). Betreuer: Prof. J. Behrmann (Freiburg), Prof. Dr. S. Schmid. 
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  • 1999

    • Bucher Stefan, 1999. Strukturgeologische und petrographische Untersuchungen am Kleinen St. Bernhard Pass (Zone Valaisanne, Unité du Petit Saint Bernard), Teil 2. 92 Seiten. Betreuer: Prof. S. Schmid, Dr. B. Fügenschuh.
    • Dubach Katherina, 1999. Die Grenzzone von Portjengrat-Einheit und Siviez-Mischabel-Decke im Almageller Tal, Wallis. Betreuer: Prof. S.Schmid , PD N. Froitzheim, Prof. M. Frey (MPI).
    • Hecker Christoph, 1999. Alpine Tektonik und Metamorphose im Gebiet um den Piz Tasna. Betreuer: PD N. Froitzheim, Dr. R. Ferreiro Mählmann (MPI).
    • Zimmermann Bettina, 1999. Tektonometamorphe Entwicklung von Tasna-Decke und Bündnerschiefern zwischen Val Chöglias, Val Fenga und Val Laver (Unterengadin/Schweiz). Betreuer: PD N. Froitzheim, Dr. R. Ferreiro Mählmann (MPI).

  • 1998

    • Della Torre Florian, 1998. Petrographische und strukturgeologische Untersuchungen am Kleinen St. Bernhard Pass (Zone Valaisanne, Punta Rossa Komplex, unite du Pt. S. Bernard). Betreuer: Profs. S. Schmid, M. Frey und Dr. B. Fügenschuh.
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• Unpublished manuscripts and maps

  • MAJOR TECTONIC UNITS OF THE ALPS, CARPATHIANS, DINARIDES AND HELLENIDES Last modified: 12.4.08
  • Regional tectonics: from the Rhine graben to the plain, a summary of the tectonic evolution of the Alps and their forelands. Text with included figures OR text with linked figures
  • A new tectonic map of the Alps: low quality image or download a high quality image (5.5 Mb): right-click or alt-click on this link

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