Publications

2017:

  • Sommaruga A., Mosar J., Schori M. & Gruber M. (2017). The role of the Triassic evaporites underneath the North Alpine foreland. InPermo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and Central Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential. Chap. 22. Ed. Sor. J., Flinch J., Tari G., Elsevier, 350p. ISBN: 9780128094174, doi:10.1016/13978-0-12-809417-4.00021-5.
  • Abegnego M., Blascheck P., Schefer S., Nussbaum Ch., Joswig M., Bossart P. & Mosar J. (2017). Seismotectonic analysis around the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland): a pilot study. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, vol. 110. doi:10.1007/s00015-017-0263-6.
  • Vouillamoz N., Deichmann N. & Mosar J. (2017 in press). Multi-scale imaging of a slow active fault zone: Contribution for improved seismic hazard assessment in the Swiss Alpine foreland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences.

2016:

  • Egli, D.,  Mosar J., Ibele T. & Madritsch H. (2016). The role of precursory structures on Tertiary deformation in the Black Forest – Hegau region. International Journal of Earthsciences. doi 10.1007/s00531-016-1427-8
  • Sommaruga Anna, Gruber Marius & Mosar Jon (2016): Synthèse des données géologiques utiles pour la construction d’un modèle du sous-sol du Canton de Fribourg. GeoFocus, Vol. 39, University of Fribourg, Geosciences Department, Switzerland, 103p. ISSN 1424-1463.
  • Vouillamoz N., Abegnego M., Wust-Bloch G.H., & Mosar J. (2016). Caractérisation de la microsismicité d’une zone de failles actives à proximité de la centrale nucléaire de Mühleberg (KKM).  Geopanorama 1/2016.
  • Vouillamoz N., Abednego M., Wust G.H. & Mosar J. (2016). Optimizing event detection and location in low-seismicity zones using nanoseismic monitoring: Case study from Western Switzerland.  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 106, No. 5, pp. –, October 2016, doi: 10.1785/0120160029
  • Radaideh O.M.A., Grasemann B., Melichar R. & Mosar J. (2016). Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan. Geomorphology, vol. 275, 58-79.
  • von Raumer, J. F., Nesbor, H.D., Stampfli, G. M., 2015. The plate-tectonic interpretation of Devonian ore-sites. International Journal of Earth Sciences,  doi 10.1007/s00531-016-1425-x
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2015:

  • Schori M., Mosar J. & Schreurs G. (2015). Upper detachments during thin-skinned deformation of the Swiss central Jura: a kinematic model across the Chasseral. Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 108(2), pp. 327-343 doi 10.1007/s00015-015-0196-x
  • Sosson M., Stephenson, Sheremet Y., R. Rolland Y., Adamia S., Melkonian R., Kangarli T., Yeregova T., Avagyan A., Galoyan G., Danelian T., Hässig M., Meijers M., Muller C., Sahakyan L., Saradze N., Alania V., Enukidze O., Mosar j. (2015). Ga The eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region during the Cretaceous: New evidence to constrain its tectonic evolution. Comptes rendus Geoscience. doi 10.1016/j.crte.2015.11.002
  • von Raumer, J. F., Stampfli, G. M., Arenas, R., & Sánchez Martínez, S, 2015. Ediacaran to Cambrian oceanic rocks of the Gondwana margin and their tectonic interpretation. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104, 1107-1121. doi 10.1007/s00531-015-1142-x

2013:

  • von Raumer, J., Bussy, F., Schaltegger, U., Schulz, B., &  Stampfli, G. M. 2013: Pre-Mesozoic Alpine basements – their place in the European Paleozoic framework, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 125, 1/2, 89–108

2012:

  • Sommaruga Anna, Eichenberger Urs & Marillier François (2012): Seismic Atlas of the Swiss Molasse Basin. Ed. by the Swiss Geophysical Commission. Matériaux pour la géologie de la Suisse, Géophysique N°44. Published by swisstopo. Text and figures volume, 88 p, 22 large plate enclosures. GIS Contributor: Engler Robin. www.geologieportal.ch/internet/geologieportal/en/home/topics/basics/geophysics/data/seismicatlas.html
  • Diem M., Gruber M., Ibele T., Vouillamoz N., Mosar J. (2012). The Broye Graben System – A tectonicaly active graben in a compressional environment. Bulletin de la Société vaudoise des Sciences naturelle, vol. 93, 1, p.1-8.
  • von Raumer, J.F., Vesela, P., Finger, F., & Stampfli, G. M., 2014, Durbachites-Vaugnerites – a geodynamic marker in the central European Variscan orogen. Terra Nova, 26, 85–95, 2014

2011:

  • Sommaruga Anna (2011): From the central Jura Mountains to the western Molasse Basin (France and Switzerland). Swiss Association of Energy Geoscientists Bulletin Vol. 16/2, 63-75.
  • Sommaruga Anna, Eichenberger Urs & Marillier François (2011): Vision 3D du Bassin molassique en Suisse à partir de la sismique réflexion. Géochronique Vol. n°117, 45-47.
  • Mosar J., Meier B., Sommaruga A., Abegnego M., Eichenberger U., Ibele T., Matzenauer E., Sprecher Ch., & Vouillamoz N.  (2011) Die Fribourg-Struktur und die Fribourg-Zone: ein aktives Störungssystem? Oder Der Röstigraben – ein geologischer Beweis! Geschäftsbericht 2010 – Vereinigung Kantonaler Feuerversicherungen VKF, Schweizerischer Pool für Erdbebendeckung  p. 22-24.
  • Jaquet S., Mosar J., Abednego M. & Schwaab M. (2011). Chutes de blocs – Etude comparative de logiciels de simulation. JDRN – 2. Journée de rencontre sur les dangers naturels, volume spécial 1, p. 1-7.
  • Mosar J., Abegnego M., Ibele T., Matzenauer E., Meier B., Sommaruga A., Sprecher Ch., & Vouillamoz N.  (2011). Du Jura central aux Préalpes romandes – Une tectonique active dans l’avant-pays des Alpes. Géochronique vol 117, p. 52-55.
  • Mosar J. (2011). Géologie des Alpes s.l. – Une perspective Helvétique actuelle.  Géochronique vol 117, p. 12-13.
  • Schulz, B. & Von Raumer, J. 2011. Discovery of Ordovician–Silurian metamorphic monazite in garnet metapelites of the Alpine External Aiguilles Rouges Massif. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104, 67-79
  • 125) von Raumer, J., Bussy, F. & Stampfli, G. M. 2011: Les Alpes paléozoïques – de la marge de Gondwana à la collision varisque,  Géochronique, vol. 137, 34-37
  • Stampfli, G.M., von Raumer, J., Wilhem, C. 2011: The distribution of Gondwana derived terranes in the early Paleozoic. In: Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C., Rábano, I. & García-Bellido, D. (eds.), The Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, 567-574.
  • Bussy,  F., Péronnet, V., Ulianov, A., Epard, J.L., and von Raumer, J. 2011: Ordovician magmatism in the external French Alps: witness of a perogondwanan active continental margin. In: Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C., Rábano, I. & García-Bellido, D. (eds.), The Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, 75-82.
  • Schulz, B. & Von Raumer, J. 2011. Discovery of Ordovician–Silurian metamorphic monazite in garnet metapelites of the Alpine External Aiguilles Rouges Massif. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104, 67-79

2010:

  • Mosar J., Kangarli T., Bochud M., Brunet M-F., Glasmacher U.A., Rast A. & Sosson M. (2010) Cenozoic-Recent tectonics and uplift in the Greater Caucasus: a perspective from Azerbaijan. Geological Society London, Special Publication vol. 340, 261-280, DOI:10.1144/SP340.12.
  • Schlunegger F. & Mosar J. (2010). The last erosional stage of the Molasse Basin and the Alps.  International Journal of Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0607-1.
  • Vouillamoz N., Saudan C.& Mosar J. (2010). Microzonage sismique du canton de Fribourg – Cartographie au 1 :25.00 des sols de fondation selon la norme SIA 261. Geofocus 26, 57pp.
  • Sarret Y.& Mosar J. (2010). Paléotectonique et tectonique alpine dans l’écaille de St‐Triphon. Bulletin de la société vaudoise des Sciences naturelles, vol. 92.1, 1-14.

2009:

  • Egan S.S., Mosar J., Brunet M-F. & Kangarli T. (2009) Subsidence and Uplift Mechanisms within The South Caspian Basin: Insights From The Onshore and Offshore Azerbaijan Region. Geological Soc. London Spec. Publications, 312, 219–240, DOI: 10.1144/SP312.11.
  • Sosson M., Rolland Y., Muller C. Danelian T., Melkonyan R., Adamia S., Kangarli T., Avagyan A., Galoyan G. & Mosar J. (2009) Subductions, obduction and collision in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), new insights. Geological Society London, Special Publication vol. 340, 329-352, DOI:10.1144/SP340.14.
  • von Raumer, J., Bussy, F., & Stampfli, G. (2009) The Variscan evolution in the Alps – and place in their Variscan framework. Comptes Rendues de l’Académie des Sciences, Geosciences, Paris, 341, 239-252.

2008:

  • Bonnet C., Mosar J., & Malavieille J. (2008). Surface processes versus kinematics of thrust belts: impact on rates of erosion, sedimentation, and exhumation- Insights from analogue models.  Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, vol 179/3, 297-314.
  • Mosar J., Ibele T. & Matzenauer E. (2008) Tectonics of the Molasse Basin of Western Switzerland: An Overview.  NAGRA Arbeits Bericht – NAB-08-07, 84pp..
  • Schmid St.M., Manktelow N., Mosar J., Pfiffner A.-O.. & Schaer J.-P. (2008). Modern methods in structural geology and tectonics: a series of articles in honour of Martin Burkhard (1957-2006). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101,2,  245-249.
  • Barrier E. & Vrielynck B. contibutors: Bergerat F., Brunet M-F., Mosar J., Poisson A. & Sosson M. (2008) Paleotectonic maps of the Middle East – Tectono-sedimentary-palinspastic maps from Late Norian to Pliocene. Middle East Basins evolution programme. Ed. CGMW Comission of the geological map of the world. 14 maps.
  • von Raumer, J. & Stampfli, G. M. 2008: The birth of the Rheic Ocean – Early Palaeozoic subsidence patterns and tectonic plate scenarios. Tectonophysics, 461, 9-20.

2007:

  • Cloetingh S., Ziegler P., Bogaard P.,Andriessen P., Artemieva I., Bada, G., van Balen, R.T., Beekmann, F. Ben-Avraham, Z. Brun, J.-P., Bunge, H.P., Burov E., Carbonell, R., Facenna C., Friederich A., Gallart, J., Green A., Heidbach, O., Jones, A., Matenco L., Mosar J., Onken O., Pascal, C., Peters, G., Sliaupa S., Soesso A., Spakman W., Stephenson R., Thybo, H., Torsvik, T., de Vincente, G., Wenzel F., Wortel R., & TOPO-EUROPE Working Group (2007). 4-D topographic evolution of the intra-plate regions of Europe: a multidisciplinary approach linking geology, geophysics and geotechnology. Global and Planetary Change, 58, 1-118.
  • Bonnet C., Malavieille J. &  Mosar J. (2007). Interactions between tectonics, erosion and sedimentation during the recent evolution of the Alpine orogen – Analogue modelling insights. Tectonics, 26, TC6016, doi:10.1029/2006TC002048.

2006:

  • Mosar J. (2006). Expédition dans le Grand Caucase oriental. Univeristas, sept. 2006, 38-39.
  • von Raumer, J.F., Stampfli, G.M., Hochard, C., & Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2006): The Early Palaeozic in Iberia – a plate-tectonic interpretation. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 157, 575-584.

2005:

  • Mosar J. (2005). Violence tectonique: La terre en colère. Univeristas Friburgensis, déc. 2005, 26-27.
  • Osmundsen, P. T., Braathen, A., Sommaruga, A., Skilbrei, J. R., Nordgulen, Ø., Roberts, D., Andersen, T. B,. Olesen, O. & Mosar, J.  (2005).  Metamorphic core complexes and gneiss-cored culminations along the Mid-Norwegian margin: an overview and some current ideas. NPF Special Publication 12, (Eds. B. Wandas et al.), 29-41.

2004:

  • Bonnet C. & Mosar J. (2004). Landscape, structure and neotectonics in the Swiss and French Prealpes klippen belt. Bolletino di Geofisica teorica ed applicata, vol. 45 n.1 supplement, 15-17.
  • von Raumer, J.F. and Bussy, F., 2004. Mont Blanc and Aiguilles Rouges – Geology of their polymetamorphic basement (External Massifs, France-Switzerland). Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne), vol. 42: 1-203.

2003:

  • Mosar J. (2003). Scandinavias North Atlantic Passive margin. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 108/B8,2360, EGT 1-18.
  • von Raumer, J.F., Stampfli, G.M. & Bussy, F., 2003. Gondwana-derived microcontinents – the constituents of the Variscan and Alpine collisional orogens. Tectonophysics, 365: 7-22.

2002:

  • Mosar, J. (2002). Tectonic map of Scandinavian North Atlantic passive margin. Cover page of Norwegian Journal of Geology, vol. 82/2.
  • Mosar, J. (2002). Crustal-scale cross-section between Norway and Greenland. In Geological map, Land and sea areas of Northern Europe: 1:4 000 000. Ed. E.M.O. Sigmond, Geological Survey of Norway.
  • Mosar J.  and Opsal J.G. (2002). Separating Svalbard and the Barents Sea from Greenland: A Tertiary Plate-tectonic model. Bolletino di Geofisica teorica ed applicata, vol. 42 n.1/2 supplement, 76-79.
  • Osmundsen P.T., Sommaruga A., Mosar J., & Torsvik T.H., (2002). The Mid-Norway Atlantic passive margin: Asymmetric passive margin and Multiply extended crust. Bolletino di Geofisica teorica ed applicata, vol. 42 n.1/2 supplement, 79-81.
  • Mosar J. (2002). The Atlantic Norwegian passive margin: Structure and evolution. Bolletino di Geofisica teorica ed applicata, vol. 42 n.1/2 supplement, 73-76.
  • Mosar, J., Lewis, G. and Torsvik, T. H. (2002). North Atlantic sea-floor spreading rates: implications for the Tertiary development of inversion structures of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, London 159, 5, 503-515.
  • G.M. Stampfli, G.D. Borel, R. Marchant & Mosar J. (2002). Western Alps geological constraints on western Tethyan reconstructions. The Virtual  Explorer, vol. 8, 75-104. http://virtualexplorer.com.au
  • Torsvik, T.H., Carlos, D., Mosar, J., Cocks, L.R.M. & Malme, T. (2002) Global Reconstructions and North Atlantic Palaeogeography 440 Ma to Recent. In: BATLAS — Mid Norway plate reconstruction atlas with global and North Atlantic perspectives. Eide, E.A., coord., ed. Norges geologiske undersøkelse. Geological Survey of Norway, 18-39.
  • Mosar, J., & Torsvik, T.H. (2002). Opening the Norwegian and Greenland Seas: Plate tectonics in Mid-Norway since Late Permian. In: BATLAS — Mid Norway plate reconstruction atlas with global and North Atlantic perspectives. Eide, E.A., coord., ed. Norges geologiske undersøkelse. Geological Survey of Norway, 48-59.
  • Mosar J., Osmundsen P.T., Sommaruga A., Torsvik T.H. and Eide E. (2002). Greenland – Norway separation: A new geodynamic model for the North Atlantic. Norwegian Journal of Geology, vol. 82/4, 282-299.
  • von Raumer, J., Dobmeier, C. & Bussy, F., 2002. Variscan structures in the Aiguilles Rouges – Mont Blanc areas (External Massifs, Alps). Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, 2002, 3/4: 237-242.
  • Stampfli G M, von Raumer J F, Borel G (2002): Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, vol. 364: 263-280.
  • von Raumer, J. F., Stampfli, G. M., Borel, G. D. & Bussy, F. 2002. The organization of pre-Variscan basement areas at the Gondwana margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 91: 35-52

2001:

  • Stampfli, G.M., Borel, G., Cavazza, W., Mosar, J. & Ziegler, P. (2001). Late Triassic recosntruction of the western Tethys realm. Coverpage of Episodes, 24-4.
  • Stampfli, G., Borel, G., Cavazza, W., Mosar, J. and Ziegler, P. (Eds., 2001). The Paleotectonic Atlas of the Peritethyan domain. European Geophysical Society – CD-ROM <e-public> – Electronic Publishing & Consulting, Berlin.
  • Stampfli G.M., Mosar J., Favre Ph., Pillevuit A. & Vannay J.C. (2001). The Neotethys/east-Mediterranean basin connection. PeriTethyan rift/wrench basins and passive margins, IGCP 369, Peri-Tethys Memoir 6, Mémoires Muséum Nat. d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 186, 51-108.
  • Mosar, J., Borel, G., Ringgenberg, Y. & Stampfli, G.M. (2001). The internides klippen belt – the Préalpes Romandes domain. In: Geology of the western Swiss Alps, a guide-book. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne), 36, 147-176.
  • Stampfli, G.M., Mosar, J.,  Marchant, R & Borel, G. (2001). The geodynamic framework of the western Alps: The Alpine cycle. In: Geology of the western Swiss Alps, a guide-book. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne), 36, 9-26.
  • Torsvik T.H., Van der Voo R., Meert J.G., Mosar J. and Walderhaug H.J. (2001). Reconstructions of the continents around the North Atlantic at about the 60th parallel. Earth and planetary Science Letters, 187, 55-69.
  • Torsvik T.H., Mosar J. and Eide E. (2001). Cretaceous-Tertiary geodynamics: A North Atlantic exercise. Geophysical Journal International, 146/3, 850-866.
  • Stampfli, G.M., Borel, G., Cavazza, W., Mosar, J. and Ziegler, P. (2001).  Palaeotectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of the western Tethys and PeriTethyan domain. Episodes, 24-4, 222-228.

2000:

  • Mosar J. (2000). Depth of extensional faulting on the Mid-Norway Atlantic passive margin. Norges geologiske undersøkelse, Bulletin, 437, 33-41.
  • Borel G.D. & Mosar J. (2000). Hidden structures in the Chablais Préalpes subsurface: New tectonic interpretations of the Préalpes Médianes nappe based on palinspastic lengths. Eclogae geologicae helvetiae, 93/3, 307-314. 

1999:

  • Steck, A., Allimannn, M., Epard, J.-L., Escher, A., Lempicka Münch, A., Marthaler, M., Masson, H., Mosar J., Sartori, M., Spring, L. (1999). Carte Tectonique des Alpes de Suisse occidentale 1:100 000, Feuille 41 Col du Pillon, Carte géologique spécilae n. 123-NW, eds. Service hydrologique et géologique national. Bern.
  • Stampfli G.M & Mosar J. (1999). The making and becoming of Apulia. 3rd Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies, Biella – Oropa, Sept. 29th – Oct.1st 1997; Gosso, G. Jadoul, F., Sella, M. Spalla, M. I. Eds. Memorie di  Science Geologiche, Univ. di Padova, 51/1, 141-154.
  • Mosar J. (1999). Present-day and future tectonic underplating in the Western SwissAlps: reconciliation of basement/wrench-faulting and décollement folding of the Jura and Molasse Basin in the Alpine foreland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 173/3, 143-155.
  • Dobmeier Ch, Pfeifer H R, & von Raumer J.F (1999): The newly defined “Greenstone unit” of the Aiguilles Rouges massif (Western Alps): remnant of an Early Palaeozoic oceanic island arc? Schweiz. Min. Petr. Mitt. 79:263-276.
  • von Raumer, J. F., Abrecht, J., Bussy, F., Lombardo, B., Ménot, R. P., Schaltegger, U. (1999): The Palaeozoic metamorphic evolution of the Alpine External Massifs. Schweiz. Min. Petr. Mitt., 79: 5-22.

1998

  • Stampfli G.M., Mosar J., De Bono A., &Vavasis I. (1998). Late Paleozoic, Early Mesozoic plate tectonics of the western Tethys. Bull. Geol. Soc. Greece, vol. XXXII/1,113-120.
  • Stampfli G.M., Mosar J., Marquer D., Marchant R., Baudin Th. and Borel G. (1998). Subduction and obduction processes in the Swiss Alps. Tectonophysics, 296, 159-204.
  • von Raumer, J.F. (1998): The Palaeozoic evolution in the Alps – from Gondwana to Pangea. Geologische Rundschau, 87: 407-435.