The topography of the eastern Southern Alps (ESA) reflects indenter tectonics causing crustal shortening, surface uplift, and erosional response. Fluvial drainages were perturbed by Pleistocene glaciations that locally excavated alpine valleys. The Late Miocene desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea and the uplift of the northern Molasse Basin led to significant base level changes in the far fiel...

Collisional shortening in the external Western Alps was first accommodated by internal (distributed) deformation External Crystalline Massifs (ECM) and then on frontal crustal ramps (localized deformation). However, timing of transition between these two periods is still under-constrained, mainly because available dataset incomplete Alps. We here provide new zircon apatite fission-track (ZFT AF...

Balanced cross-sections across the Zagros fold–thrust belt in Iran are used to analyze the geometry of deformation within the sedimentary cover rocks, and to test the hypothesis of basement involved thrusting throughout the fold–thrust belt. Although the Zagros deformation front is a relatively rectilinear feature, the sinuous map-view morphology of the mountain front is a result of a 6 km stru...

A comprehensive measurement study of mercury wet deposition and size-fractionated particulate mercury (HgP) concurrent with meteorological variables was conducted from June 2011 to February 2012 to evaluate the characteristics of mercury deposition and particulate mercury in urban Nanjing, China. The volume-weighted mean (VWM) concentration of mercury in rainwater was 52.9 ng L−1 with a range o...

In this study, to investigate the effects of runoff harvesting on soil properties in the semiarid forest, runoff harvesting through semi-circular bund was considered as a method to conserve soil and thereby combat tree mortality. In order to evaluate this hypothesis, runoff was harvested through the semi-circular bund affecting soil quality and moisture storage. The selected forest site is loca...

We measured detailed regional deposition patterns of inhaled particles in healthy adult male (n = 11; 25 +/- 4 yr of age) and female (n = 11; 25 +/- 3 yr of age) subjects by means of a serial bolus aerosol delivery technique for monodisperse fine [particle diameter (Dp) = 1 micron] and coarse aerosols (Dp = 3 and 5 micron). The bolus aerosol (40 ml half-width) was delivered to a specific volume...

Abstract The Tramelan-2 borehole (Canton Bern, Switzerland) continuously cored a 275.60 m sequence of Palaeogene to Neogene sediments, providing rare opportunity for sedimentological analysis the Jura Molasse. Lithostratigraphy, sedimentary facies and heavy minerals allow correlation with classical Swiss Evidence clastic input from Alpine non-Alpine sources is consistent deposition at northern ...