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Progressive orogenic deformation and metamorphism along the Combin Fault and Dent Blanche Basal Thrust in the Swiss-Italian Western Alps
(2015-03-24)
In the Western Alps of Switzerland and Italy, a stack of oceanic and continental units assembled during Late Cretaceous – Paleogene Alpine subduction, exhumation, and accretion. In the study area in the southern Valais and ...
Dating Early Archean partial melting events: insights from Re-Os dating of micrometric Os-minerals from Kalahari Craton mantle xenoliths
(2015-03-12)
Our understanding on the formation, mechanism and timing of the formation of the Earth’s earliest continents hinges on obtaining robust and accurate ages of melt depletion and lithosphere stabilisation. The Re-Os geochronometer ...
Cluster analysis of European surface ozone observations for evaluation of MACC reanalysis data
(2015-04-22)
The high density of European surface ozone monitoring sites offers good opportunities for investigation of the regional ozone representativeness and for evaluation of chemistry climate models. In this thesis we analyze ...
Retrieval of cloud and rainwater from ground-based passive microwave observations with the multi-frequency dual-polarized radiometer ADMIRARI
(2015-03-24)
A ground-breaking new-concept multi-wavelength dual-polarized passive microwave radiometer ADMIRARI (ADvanced MIcrowave RAdiometer for Rain Identification) has been developed to perform observations of atmospheric precipitating ...
Influences of Snow Cover on Thermal and Mechanical Processes in steep Permafrost Rock Walls
(2015-02-24)
Degradation of rock permafrost can cause instability due to influences on rock- and ice-mechanical properties. Permafrost conditions can be altered by thermal processes and, thus, also mechanical properties of rocks. Snow ...
The Foraminifera of the Zanzibar Archipelago: (Tanzania, East Africa)
(2015-01-08)
The Zanzibar Archipelago is the largest reef system in eastern Africa and represents the transition from the high-diversity region of the Asian Indo-Pacific to the cold-water areas of southern Africa. It is among the most ...
Dynamic triggering: The effects of remote earthquakes on volcanoes, hydrothermal systems and tectonics
(2015-02-02)
Dynamic stresses induced by seismic waves from large earthquakes can trigger a variety of geologic phenomena. This thesis focuses on observational evidence of dynamically triggered seismic activity in hydrothermal, volcanic ...
The effect of climate variability on wheat in Iran
(2015-01-22)
In this study, we investigated the impact of temperature variability on wheat phenology in Iran. Temperature is the most appropriate climate variable affecting wheat production wheat in cultivation under irrigation in Iran. ...
A study of the state-nature relations in a developmental state: The case of South Korea’s water resource policy, 1961-2015
(2015-08-19)
The East Asian ‘developmental state thesis’ (hereafter, DST) was suggested to explain the East Asian development states (i.e. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore), where the role of the state has been very significant ...
Origins of Endothermy in the Mammalian Lineage: the Evolutionary Beginning of Fibro-lamellar Bone in the “Mammal-Like” Reptiles
(2015-07-07)
This study reports on long bone histology of the pelycosaurs, and proposes the hypothesis that the presence of fibro-lamellar bone (FLB) and high growth rates were already present in the basal most synapsids during the ...