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Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Alpen

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The Alpine history with thrusts and metamorphisms began already in the Cretaceous. The velocities of uplifting, cooling and erosion varied in time and space: in the beginning extremely high, then slow in the Bergell Massif, just the contrary in the Simplon area and even more in the Aar Massif, which proves formerly moderate altitudes in the West and a displacement of the Continental divide from the South to the North. Apatite fission-track datings on boulders of the Como Molasse show that they must stem from Andine altitudes in the Bergell Massif. Being transported together with blocks up to 10 m3 over 80 km in a paleobotanically documented youngest Oligocence climatic depression on both sides of the Alps, this distance could be effected only by a glacier advance into the preformed valley of Lake Como.

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  1. Abteilung für Isotopengeologie der Universität, CH-3012, Bern

    E. Jäger

  2. Geologisches Institut der ETH, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092, Zürich

    R. Hantke

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E.J. dankt dem Schweizerischen Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung für die finanzielle Unterstützung der experimentellen Arbeiten.

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Jäger, E., Hantke, R. Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Alpen. Naturwissenschaften 70, 209–215 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405437

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