TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fromm, T.
A1  - Jokat, W.
A1  - Ryberg, T.
A1  - Behrmann, Jan H.
A1  - Haberland, C.
A1  - Weber, Michael
T1  - The onset of Walvis Ridge: Plume influence at the continental margin
JF  - Tectonophysics : international journal of geotectonics and the geology and physics of the interior of the earth
N2  - The opening of the South Atlantic is a classical example for a plume related continental breakup. Flood basalts are present on both conjugate margins as well as aseismic ridges connecting them with the current plume location at Tristan da Cunha. To determine the effect of the proposed plume head on the continental crust, we acquired wide-angle seismic data at the junction of the Walvis Ridge with the African continent and modelled the P-wave velocity structure in a forward approach. The profile extends 430 km along the ridge and continues onshore to a length of 720 km. Crustal velocities beneath the Walvis Ridge vary between 5.5 km/s and 7.0 km/s, a typical range for oceanic crust. The crustal thickness of 22 km, however, is approximately three times larger than of normal oceanic crust. The continent-ocean transition is characterized by 30 km thick crust with strong lateral velocity variations in the upper crust and a high-velocity lower crust (HVLC), where velocities reach up to 7.5 km/s. The HVLC is 100 to 130 km wider at the Walvis Ridge than it is farther south, and impinges onto the continental crust of the Kaoko fold belt. Such high seismic velocities indicate Mg-rich igneous material intruded into the continental crust during the initial rifting stage. However, the remaining continental crust seems unaffected by intrusions and the root of the 40 km-thick crust of the Kaoko belt is not thermally abraded. We conclude that the plume head did not modify the continental crust on a large scale, but caused rather local effects. Thus, it seems unlikely that a plume drove or initiated the breakup process. We further propose that the plume already existed underneath the continent prior to the breakup, and ponded melt erupted at emerging rift structures providing the magma for continental flood basalts. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.03.011
SN  - 0040-1951
SN  - 1879-3266
VL  - 716
SP  - 90
EP  - 107
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hetenyi, Gyorgy
A1  - Molinari, Irene
A1  - Clinton, John
A1  - Bokelmann, Gotz
A1  - Bondar, Istvan
A1  - Crawford, Wayne C.
A1  - Dessa, Jean-Xavier
A1  - Doubre, Cecile
A1  - Friederich, Wolfgang
A1  - Fuchs, Florian
A1  - Giardini, Domenico
A1  - Graczer, Zoltan
A1  - Handy, Mark R.
A1  - Herak, Marijan
A1  - Jia, Yan
A1  - Kissling, Edi
A1  - Kopp, Heidrun
A1  - Korn, Michael
A1  - Margheriti, Lucia
A1  - Meier, Thomas
A1  - Mucciarelli, Marco
A1  - Paul, Anne
A1  - Pesaresi, Damiano
A1  - Piromallo, Claudia
A1  - Plenefisch, Thomas
A1  - Plomerova, Jaroslava
A1  - Ritter, Joachim
A1  - Rumpker, Georg
A1  - Sipka, Vesna
A1  - Spallarossa, Daniele
A1  - Thomas, Christine
A1  - Tilmann, Frederik
A1  - Wassermann, Joachim
A1  - Weber, Michael
A1  - Weber, Zoltan
A1  - Wesztergom, Viktor
A1  - Zivcic, Mladen
A1  - Abreu, Rafael
A1  - Allegretti, Ivo
A1  - Apoloner, Maria-Theresia
A1  - Aubert, Coralie
A1  - Besancon, Simon
A1  - de Berc, Maxime Bes
A1  - Brunel, Didier
A1  - Capello, Marco
A1  - Carman, Martina
A1  - Cavaliere, Adriano
A1  - Cheze, Jerome
A1  - Chiarabba, Claudio
A1  - Cougoulat, Glenn
A1  - Cristiano, Luigia
A1  - Czifra, Tibor
A1  - Danesi, Stefania
A1  - Daniel, Romuald
A1  - Dannowski, Anke
A1  - Dasovic, Iva
A1  - Deschamps, Anne
A1  - Egdorf, Sven
A1  - Fiket, Tomislav
A1  - Fischer, Kasper
A1  - Funke, Sigward
A1  - Govoni, Aladino
A1  - Groschl, Gidera
A1  - Heimers, Stefan
A1  - Heit, Ben
A1  - Herak, Davorka
A1  - Huber, Johann
A1  - Jaric, Dejan
A1  - Jedlicka, Petr
A1  - Jund, Helene
A1  - Klingen, Stefan
A1  - Klotz, Bernhard
A1  - Kolinsky, Petr
A1  - Kotek, Josef
A1  - Kuhne, Lothar
A1  - Kuk, Kreso
A1  - Lange, Dietrich
A1  - Loos, Jurgen
A1  - Lovati, Sara
A1  - Malengros, Deny
A1  - Maron, Christophe
A1  - Martin, Xavier
A1  - Massa, Marco
A1  - Mazzarini, Francesco
A1  - Metral, Laurent
A1  - Moretti, Milena
A1  - Munzarova, Helena
A1  - Nardi, Anna
A1  - Pahor, Jurij
A1  - Pequegnat, Catherine
A1  - Petersen, Florian
A1  - Piccinini, Davide
A1  - Pondrelli, Silvia
A1  - Prevolnik, Snjezan
A1  - Racine, Roman
A1  - Regnier, Marc
A1  - Reiss, Miriam
A1  - Salimbeni, Simone
A1  - Santulin, Marco
A1  - Scherer, Werner
A1  - Schippkus, Sven
A1  - Schulte-Kortnack, Detlef
A1  - Solarino, Stefano
A1  - Spieker, Kathrin
A1  - Stipcevic, Josip
A1  - Strollo, Angelo
A1  - Sule, Balint
A1  - Szanyi, Gyongyver
A1  - Szucs, Eszter
A1  - Thorwart, Martin
A1  - Ueding, Stefan
A1  - Vallocchia, Massimiliano
A1  - Vecsey, Ludek
A1  - Voigt, Rene
A1  - Weidle, Christian
A1  - Weyland, Gauthier
A1  - Wiemer, Stefan
A1  - Wolf, Felix
A1  - Wolyniec, David
A1  - Zieke, Thomas
T1  - The AlpArray seismic network
BT  - a large-scale european experiment to image the alpine orogen
JF  - Surveys in Geophysics
N2  - The AlpArray programme is a multinational, European consortium to advance our understanding of orogenesis and its relationship to mantle dynamics, plate reorganizations, surface processes and seismic hazard in the Alps-Apennines-Carpathians-Dinarides orogenic system. The AlpArray Seismic Network has been deployed with contributions from 36 institutions from 11 countries to map physical properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere in 3D and thus to obtain new, high-resolution geophysical images of structures from the surface down to the base of the mantle transition zone. With over 600 broadband stations operated for 2 years, this seismic experiment is one of the largest simultaneously operated seismological networks in the academic domain, employing hexagonal coverage with station spacing at less than 52 km. This dense and regularly spaced experiment is made possible by the coordinated coeval deployment of temporary stations from numerous national pools, including ocean-bottom seismometers, which were funded by different national agencies. They combine with permanent networks, which also required the cooperation of many different operators. Together these stations ultimately fill coverage gaps. Following a short overview of previous large-scale seismological experiments in the Alpine region, we here present the goals, construction, deployment, characteristics and data management of the AlpArray Seismic Network, which will provide data that is expected to be unprecedented in quality to image the complex Alpine mountains at depth.
KW  - Seismology
KW  - Alps
KW  - Seismic network
KW  - Geodynamics
KW  - Seismic imaging
KW  - Mountain building
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-018-9472-4
SN  - 0169-3298
SN  - 1573-0956
VL  - 39
IS  - 5
SP  - 1009
EP  - 1033
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weber, Michael
A1  - Scholz, Denis
A1  - Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea
A1  - Deininger, Michael
A1  - Spötl, Christoph
A1  - Lugli, Federico
A1  - Mertz-Kraus, Regina
A1  - Jochum, Klaus Peter
A1  - Fohlmeister, Jens Bernd
A1  - Stumpf, Cintia F.
A1  - Riechelmann, Dana F. C.
T1  - Evidence of warm and humid interstadials in central Europe during early MISSUE 3 revealed by a multi-proxy speleothem record
JF  - Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
N2  - Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3, 57-27 ka) was characterised by numerous rapid climate oscillations (i.e., Dansgaard-Oeschger (D/O-) events), which are reflected in various climate archives. So far, MIS 3 speleothem records from central Europe have mainly been restricted to caves located beneath temperate Alpine glaciers or close to the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, MIS 3 seemed to be too cold and dry to enable speleothem growth north of the Alps in central Europe. Here we present a new speleothem record from Bunker Cave, Germany, which shows two distinct growth phases from 52.0 (+0.8, -0.5) to 50.9 (+0.6, -1.3) ka and 473 (+1.0, -0.6) to 42.8 (+/- 0.9) ka, rejecting this hypothesis. These two growth phases potentially correspond to the two warmest and most humid phases in central Europe during MIS 3, which is confirmed by pollen data from the nearby Eifel. The hiatus separating the two phases is associated with Heinrich stadial 5 (HS 5), although the growth stop precedes the onset of HS 5. The first growth phase is characterised by a fast growth rate, and Mg concentrations and Sr isotope data suggest high infiltration and the presence of soil cover above the cave. The second growth phase was characterised by drier, but still favourable conditions for speleothem growth. During this phase, the delta C-13 values show a significant decrease associated with D/O-event 12. The timing of this shift is in agreement with other MIS 3 speleothem data from Europe and Greenland ice core data. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Speleothems
KW  - Pleistocene
KW  - Palaeoclimatology
KW  - Europe
KW  - Dansgaard-Oeschger event
KW  - Marine isotope stage 3
KW  - Bunker cave
KW  - Multi-proxy approach
KW  - U-Th series
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.045
SN  - 0277-3791
VL  - 200
SP  - 276
EP  - 286
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -