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At a nature-preserve protected site in the Julian Alps (NW Slovenia), in the Pod Peski valley, red fillings of megalodontid bivalves occur within the Upper Triassic Dachstein limestone. Based on optical and cathodoluminescent microscopy and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis, four generations of shell fillings were recognized, some of which contain both cement and sediment subgenerations. Logging and sampling of the limestone sequence a few meters below and above the “main” layer containing the megalodontids mentioned above revealed that the limestone is characterized by solution voids similar to the megalodontids. Namely, these voids are also filled with reddish multigeneration sediment with alternating calcite cement. Adjacent neptunian dykes were studied to clarify their influence on the last generation fillings. Two of them, located directly on the “main” layer with red-filled megalodontids, contain planktonic foraminifera, indicating Middle Jurassic or younger age. The next two neptunian dykes are located directly above the “main” layer, and one contains clasts with calpionellids characteristic of the Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous. The last dyke explored is located a few tens of meters from the “main” layer and is several hundred meters long. In a few sample from this dyke Early Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera were identified. Microscopic analysis revealed that the reddish sedimentary fillings are part of a complex palaeokarst system that produced the first three generations of fillings, and in the last (fourth) generation we noted similarities between the megalodontid fillings and neptunian dykes on the “main” bedding plane. In addition, a Santonian–Maastrichtian sedimentary fill with globotruncanid foraminifers were discovered in the upper part of the succession in one of the solution voids.
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All the Paleogene represents a key period in the growth of the Alpine belt and the development of surrounding sedimentary basins. Nevertheless, one of the most intriguing timelapse is represented by 10 Ma, between ca. 40 and ca. 30 Ma, when the growing belt hosted volcanic complexes that lead to the accumulation of volcanogenic sequences within the Northern Alpine and the Southern Alpine foreland basins. Such sequences present peculiar characteristics that varies depending on the period and depocenter where they where accumulated. In addition, they represent the fundamental clue to reconstruct how the volcanic arc developed, which kind of volcanic activity characterized it, where the volcanoes were located and to speculate about how magmatism was produced before coming to the surface. Volcanic sequences are, in fact, extremely rare and confined to the west of the chain, disarticulated from the source-to-sink systems that supplied detritus to the depocenters, together with dikes crosscutting the southern part of the belt, so less is the geodynamic information gain from them. The present talk will review a decade of investigation carried out on stratigraphic, petrographic and geochemical data on the different volcanogenic sequences, trying to reconstruct the relationship between putative volcanic centers and the basins, as well as to understand the nature of the Paleocene volcanic arc/arcs. All the considered sequences are characterized by large amounts of volcanogenic detritus, and sometimes they rarely preserve pyroclastic deposits. Occasionally, such sequences are also mixed with non-volcanic detritus, a component useful in tracing provenance of sediments and giving clues about palaeoenvironments constituting the growing belt. Although beyond of being exhaustive, the present communication represents a first attempt in marking fundamental temporal and palaeogeographic steps in the evolution of a volcanic arc through several millions of years on one of the most fascinating orogenic belt.
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The Carpathian Flysch Belt represents a Paleogene accretionary wedge (External Western Carpathians  – EWC) located in front of the narrow Pieniny Klippen Belt zone and the Cretaceous Central Western Carpathian nappe stack. The Flysch Belt is formed of several nappes thrust over the slope of the European Platform in the Miocene. This study is focused on the uppermost Magura Nappe, which consists of the Rača, Bystrica and Krynica subunits. As there are no relics of pre-Miocene oceanic crust in the EWC, the sedimentary rocks of the Flysch Belt are the only source of information available about the Alpine collisional events. U-Pb geochronology was applied to detrital rutile from sandstones of the Magura Nappe in order to better understand the closure of the Alpine Tethys in the Western Carpathians. Ten medium-sized sandstone samples were collected across the Bystrica and Krynica subunits in the Nowy Targ region in southern Poland. The samples represent synorogenic clastic sediments with inferred deposition ages between the Late Cretaceous and Oligocene. Approximately 200 rutile grains were separated from each sandstone sample and around half of them were selected for further analyses. The age and appearance (shape, inclusions, zoning etc.) of the dated rutile show significant variations, suggesting derivation from various sources. The most prominent age peaks represent the Variscan (c. 400–280 Ma) and Alpine (c. 160–90 Ma) tectonic events which are well-pronounced in all but the oldest dated sample. It is also noteworthy that four distinct Alpine signals were detected in our rutile data set. The two most prominent peaks with ages of 137–126 Ma and 115–105 Ma are found in majority of the samples. In two sandstone samples, deposited between the Eocene –Oligocene and the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene, the youngest peak of 94–90 Ma appears. Another peak of 193–184 Ma is also present in these two samples, as well as in another sandstone deposited between the Paleocene and the Eocene. In addition, most samples show few Proterozoic ages (approx. 1770 Ma, 1200 Ma, 680 Ma and 600 Ma). Since metamorphic rutile requires relatively high pressure to crystallize, its formation in the course of an orogeny is possible in a subduction setting. Hence, our new age data may reflect tectonic events related to subduction of oceanic crust and overlying sediments. Tentatively, we propose that recognizable events include the Jurassic subduction of the Meliata Ocean (~180–155 Ma), the Early Cretaceous thrust stacking of the Veporic and Gemeric domains (140–105 Ma) and possibly the Late Cretaceous subduction of the Váh Ocean (c. 90 Ma). In addition to dating, the Zr content of the rutile formed during the Alpine orogeny was measured by electron microprobe at the AGH University in Krakow. The amount of Zr varies between 37–420 ppm in almost all grains, with the exception of 4 rutile grains where ~1100 ppm was reached. The Zr in rutile thermometer, based on the approach of Kohn (2020) was used to calculate the possible metamorphic conditions at 450–650°C and >7.5 kbar. This data set corroborates formation of the Alpine rutile under relatively high pressure and rather low to moderate pressure/temperature gradient, i.e. typical of subduction-related tectonic environments.
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Examples of Lower Jurassic carbonate platform margins are rare, probably due to the scarcity of good outcrops. One of the major palaeogeographic units of the Mesozoic Tethys, the Trento Platform, however, shows two different margin types facing the Belluno and the Lombardian basins. While the western margin, facing the Lombardian Basin, is showing an ooidal unit with frequent mud mounds (Massone Oolite), the eastern margin was poorly characterized, mainly due to difficult stratigraphic definition and problematic accessibility of outcrops. The eastern platform margin characteristics are strictly controlled by tectonic activity and the type of carbonate factory; the differences between the eastern and the western margin could be linked to windward-leeward position of the platform margin, more protected to the west than to the east. Subsidence increased since Late Triassic, due to the opening of the Alpine Tethys, defining shallow water areas, dominated by subtidal and peritidal muddy carbonates, and deeper basins, such as the Belluno and Lombardian Basin. More than 500 m of mud-dominated carbonates developed until Early Sinemurian, when major switch in the carbonate factory occurred. The Hettangian-Early Sinemurian margin is usually not well exposed and is strongly dolomitized and appears to be a tectonically controlled escarpments. Since Late Early Sinemurian, the carbonate factory changed and led to a huge production of peloids and ooids, promptly shed in the surrounding basin: in the Eastern Trento Platform we recognize a 400/500 m thick wedge of Sinemurian to Pliensbachian ooidal calcarenites pinching-out towards the basin, with scattered bioconstructions made of calcareous sponges across the margin. This wedge pinches out also towards the platform interior, showing that the ooids were poorly preserved on the platform top. The preserved slope shows an angle of about 20-25°. In the western margin, the resedimented ooids are more limited, probably due to the limited size of the marginal carbonate factory. In the Late Pliensbachian, probably in the Margaritatus zone, a drowning phase affected part of the eastern carbonate platform, switching to encrinitic calcarenites, while in the western one carbonate production continued until Bajocian. These encrinites are extremely thin on the platform top, but a resedimented wedge in the proximal basin highlights the position of the topographic margin. The margins of the Trento Platform is a rare example of Early Jurassic carbonate platform margin that can be used as a reference for coeval carbonate platform depositional systems.
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The mountain regions in the Alps and Carpathians are the most precious areas in terms of biodiversity in Europe. They have rich ecosystems, beautiful wildlife and landscapes, with cultural heritage of many nations. The authors present and compare the status of nature conservation in both regions, with special emphasis on national parks and biosphere reserves. They present possibilities for using experience gathered in the Alps for the establishment of sustainable development plans for the Carpathians.
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Regiony górskie Alp i Karpat należą do terenów najcenniejszych pod względem bioróżnorodności w Europie. Odznaczają się bogatymi ekosystemami, pięknem dzikiej przyrody i krajobrazów oraz dziedzictwem kulturowym wielu narodów. Autorzy przedstawiają i porównują stan ochrony przyrody w obu regionach, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem parków narodowych i rezerwatów biosfery. Przedstawiają też możliwości wykorzystania doświadczeń alpejskich w tworzeniu planów zrównoważonego rozwoju Karpat.
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The major Mesozoic palaeogeographic disintegration of the present-day transitional area between the Alps and the Dinarides (Slovenia) occurred due to the Middle Triassic rifting event related with the opening of the Neotethys Ocean. By the Norian, three major palaeogeographic units were formed: the Dinaric (Adriatic, Friuli) Carbonate Platform (DCP) in the south, intermediate, E-W extending Slovenian Basin (SB) and the Julian Carbonate Platform (JCP) in the north. The platforms were characterized by a Dachstein type platform, while the basin was filled with hemiplegic and resedimented limestones, most of which are now dolomitized. To the west, there was a shallow water “bridge” between the two platforms. After the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary crisis, the palaeogeographic setting was preserved, but the margins of the platforms turned into ooidal factories. During the Early Jurassic, SB was almost exclusively filled with ooid calciturbidites from the north, which can be explained by the wind/leeward position of the basin with respect to the particular platform. The first rifting phase of the opening Alpine Tethys, generally dated to the earliest Jurassic, is poorly expressed in this area. The main products are limestone breccias that occur in the western part of the SB. In contrast, the second rifting phase (dated to the Pliensbachian in Slovenia) completely disintegrated JCP. The margins subsided first and were characterized by open shelf conditions with crinoid meadows, while the inner parts of the JCP remained shallow-marine. In the SB, the initial subsidence can be seen in the altered composition of the calciturbidites. Namely, the ooid/peloid dominated resediments changed to crinoid/ lithoclast dominated. In the Toarcian, sedimentation ended on most of the JCP, with only sporadic marls occurring at the margins. At the same time, the sedimentary environment of the DCP also deepened and nodular or crinoid limestone was deposited. The SB is characterized by uniform clay-rich sediments that vary greatly in thickness, indicative of differential subsidence caused by the second rifting phase. In the Middle Jurassic, shallow-water sedimentation re-established on the DCP, the margin being characterized again by ooidal shoals, the sedimentation of the SB gradually changed to siliceous limestone, while the JCP and the “bridge” between the JCP and DCP are characterized by non-sedimentation. The last important Jurassic change occurred during the Bajocian-Bathonian stages. Condensed Ammonitico Rosso-type limestone began to be deposited on the “bridge” and the JCP, while sedimentation in the SB changed to pure radiolarite. In the past, this was interpreted as a result of thermal subsidence associated with oceanization of the Alpine Tethys. However, studies in the last decade suggest a more complex tectonic evolution. Because the area in question lies between the opening Alpine Tethys to the west and the concurrent onset of subduction of the Neotethys to the east, it has been subject to strong differential subsidence between the largescale DCP and all units north of it. The exact nature of the tectonic deformation is not yet clear, but a transtensional regime is most probable. These events resulted in the disintegration and collapse of the northern DCP margin, as evidenced by the sedimentation of limestone breccia megabeds along the entire SB southern margin. These megabeds not only indicate enhanced tectonics, but also provide important information about the pre-Middle Jurassic architecture of the DCP margin, which is no longer preserved. They consist of very diverse limestone lithoclasts and an ooid packstone matrix. Analysis of the clasts revealed that the Late Triassic DCP margin was characterized by Dachstein-type reefs and the Early Jurassic by ooid shoals. In the interior of SB, these strata merge into ooid calciturbidites interlayered between radiolarite and become completely wedged in the northern part of the basin. Corresponding gravity-flow deposits also sedimented on the subsided “bridge” between the DCP and the JCP, and even on the northern margin of the DCP itself. An important difference is the simpler composition of the resediments in this area. Namely, they consist entirely of Middle Jurassic platform margin and slope lithoclasts. This is explained by the less pronounced palaeotopography between the active platform and submerged “bridge”, which did not allow erosion of the older platform limestone (as observed in SB). The described collapse of the DCP margin caused it to retreat, and marginal reefs formed over the underlying inner platform limestones in the Late Jurassic. The emersion phase in the Kimmeridgian ended reef growth and the margin turned back into ooid rich shoals. At the same time, the SB was characterized by continuous radiolarite sedimentation and drowned JCP together with the “bridge” with the Ammonitico rosso facies, characterized by several stratigraphic gaps. Rare calciturbidites are interbedded in areas near the DCP (southern SB and a drowned “bridge”). At the end of Jurassic, all areas north of the DCP show uniform sedimentation of the Biancone Limestone Formation.
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In this study we revisit two Cretaceous archives in the Alps, and we test hypotheses of major sea level falls related to ice age interludes in the Aptian. The first of the two successions in focus was formed along the northern margin of the alpine Tethys and is today preserved as Garschella Formation in the Helvetic nappes of Switzerland. Aptian phosphorites of the Luitere Beds containing Deshayites deshayesi and Dufreonia are overlain by up to tens of meters of siliciclastic shales, the Gams Beds. Gams Beds with low carbonate content are poorly dated, according to available biostratigraphies they are of Late Aptian age (nolani ammonite zone). Gams Beds are covered by up to 15 m glauconitic bioclastic sandstones and limestones (Brisi sandstone and limestone). The second locality we have revisited is Zürs in the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA, Vorarlberg, Austria). There, a condensed succession of Jurassic-Cretaceous age records Southern Tethyan ocean history of a “submarine bank”. Jurassic radiolarian cherts are overlain by pelagic limestones of earliest Cretaceous age followed by an Aptian phosphorite hardground. These phosphorites are covered by an up to several meter thick succession of reworked crinoidal limestones and then by several tens of meters of “Kreideschiefer” (Lech Formation), which are of Albian to Cenomanian in age. Phosphorites at both localities record a time of hardground formation related to changes in Tethyan oceanography, triggered by a major perturbation of the global carbon cycle and by corresponding changes in climate and oceanography. Condensed sedimentation records intense current activity on submarine highs and along the northern Tethyan shelf. Remarkable is the poorly understood change in sedimentation following hardground formation at both locations during Late Aptian time. The Helvetic Gams Beds (Garschella Fm.) record increased shedding of siliciclastics along the northern Tethys, either related to increased weathering or to a drop in sea level. We propose, that an eustatic drop of seal level explains observed northern Tethyan shifts in Late Aptian sedimentation. A corresponding drop in sea level is recorded at other localities as the Oman Mountains, along the Algarve coast in Portugal or in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin. There, most prominent “cold snaps” or “ice age interludes during Aptian greenhouse climate” are dated as martinoides to nolani ammonite zone, they coincide with the deposition of the Gams Beds. Bioclastic limestones in the Helvetic succession and in the NCA record carbonate shedding at a time of renewed sea level rise following a major Aptian sea level drop. The Late Aptian prograding carbonate system of the NCA, considered as the source of crinoidal sands, was positioned along the northern margin of the evolving Eastern Alps while Brisi carbonate sands where shedded from a Northern Tethyan carbonate ramp. The Aptian condensed sediments of Helvetics and of NCA are indicators of extreme shifts in Aptian climate triggered by perturbations of the global carbon cycle. The Aptian-Albian Zürs succession provides additional information on the rapid transition of a passive continental margin with pelagic sediments into an Austroalpine foreland basin represented by “Kreideschiefer”.
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In the 2017 there will be opened the longest railway tunnel beneath the Alps. There are planned two tubes - each 57 km long. The breakthrough at the Gotthard Base Tunnel in the Eastern tunnel took place on October 15, 2010. This link will connect northern and southern Europe by rail through the Alps in the territory of Switzerland. After finishing the construction the first high-speed trains will travel along at speeds of 200 to 250 km per hour.
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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is analysed with regard to elements pointing to the transgressive nature of the mountain and its impact on the protagonists of the novel. The author of the article focuses on the impact of time spent in the sanatorium on the mountain on the patients’ perception of the world below, on the plains, taking into account both external and mental changes. The selected fragments refer primarily to the transformations of the main protagonist, i.e. Hans Castorp, but also those of other protagonists, for example Dr Behrens or patients in whom changes of moral character can be observed. Life “up there” prompts people to see the world “down there” differently and thus figures as a place of internal transformation and crossing of boundaries, which should not be seen only topographically in this case.
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When it comes to the scope of its topics and level of detail, the sketch “The Alps in the oeuvre of Zygmunt Krasiński” is a preliminary reconnaissance. Krasiński’s image of the Alps was influenced by his “educational” trip to Switzerland on which he went with his guardians in the autumn of 1829. The primeval and monumental nature of the Alpine landscape left an indelible mark on the psyche of the young Romantic poet. This can be seen in Krasiński’s letters to his father as well as discursive writings of the future author of Non-Divine Comedy. Of crucial importance in the exploration of the Alps by young Krasiński were his Alpine trips: first in the company of his tutor and English friend Henry Reeve and then in the company of Adam Mickiewicz and Edward Odyniec.
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We współczesnych, ascetycznych kaplicach alpejskich symbolika krzyża ulega pogłębieniu i powiązaniu z mistycyzmem natury. Taka postawa jest również charakterystyczna dla twórczości Tadao Ando. Celem pracy jest analiza porównawcza rozwiązań przestrzennych stosowanych przez Ando i twórców alpejskich w zakresie formy i lokalizacji krzyża w obiektach sakralnych oraz poszukiwanie analogii wykraczających poza kontekst kulturowy. Badania pozwoliły wyodrębnić trzy podstawowe obszary operowania znakiem krzyża i semantyczne przesunięcie znaczeń w kierunku metafizyki i duchowości indywidualnej.
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In modern, ascetic Alpine chapels, the symbolism of the cross has been deepened and is linked to the mysticism of nature. This attitude also characterizes Tadao Ando's work. The aim of the work is a comparative analysis of the spatial solutions used by Ando and Alpine artists regarding the form and location of the cross in sacred buildings and the search for analogies that go beyond the cultural context. The research allowed us to identify three basic areas of using the sign of the cross and a semantic shift of meanings towards metaphysics and individual spirituality.
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