EUCOR-URGENT functioned from 1999 to 2007 as a collaborative network of 25 Universities and governmental agencies from Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with a focus on the seismic hazards and neotectonics in the Upper Rhine Graben and surrounding areas, as well as on the management of the water resources of the Quaternary graben fill.
To learn more about EUCOR-URGENT, start with the introduction
A shaded-relief digital elevation map of the Upper Rhine Graben is made available for download. This map is based on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data with a resolution of 3 arc-seconds (90 meters).
The Map is available as a PDF file in two sizes:
Download Poster Size Format (A0) 60 MB large file!
Paleogeography of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) and the Swiss Molasse Basin (SMB) from Eocene to Pliocene by: Jean-Pierre Berger, Bettina Reichenbacher, Damien Becker, Matthias Grimm, Kirsten Grimm, Laurent Picot, Andrea Storni, Claudius Pirkenseer, Christian Derer & Andreas Schaefer
The text and color figures of this paper are available for download
Download the PDF document with text and B/W illustrations as a single file (5.72 Mb)
Read the abstract and download the color figures as single files under "Read More"
Eocene-Pliocene time scale and stratigraphy of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) and the Swiss Molasse Basin (SMB) by: Jean-Pierre Berger1, Bettina Reichenbacher2, Damien Becker1, Matthias Grimm3, Kirsten Grimm3, Laurent Picot4, Andrea Storni1, Claudius Pirkenseer1 & Andreas Schaefer5
The text and color figures of the paper are available for download as a single PDF file with text and BW illustrations or as single PDF files for the illustrations in color.
Download the entire paper with B/W figures as a single PDF file (10.8 Mb)
Read the abstract and downoad the color figures as single PDF files.
The PhD Thesis of Eva-Maria Hagedorn titled "Sedimentpetrographie und Lithofazies der jungtertiären und quartären Sedimente im Oberrheingebiet" is available online at the following address:
The Homepage of the EUCOR-URGENT Symposium on "Assessing Natural Hazards in a Densely Populated Area" held 29, 30 September & 1. October 2003 in Basel can still be accessed here (with programme and abstract volume).
For your convenience, we have put the excursion guide to the Jura Front by Kamil Ustaszewski and Stefan Schmid on the home page. This is the excursion that followed the EUCOR-URGENT Syposium of 2004
Download Excursion guide in PDF format (low resolution = 3Mb)
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The dissertation of Christian Derer on "Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the northern Upper Rhine Graben (Germany), with special regard to the early syn-rift stage"
Is available as PDF File from the University of Bonn: link
The present study focuses on the tectono-sedimentary interactions during the Cenozoic syn-rift stage of the northern Upper Rhine Graben. A special regard is given to the early syn-rift phase. The analysis is based on reflection seismic and well log information, which were generously made available by the German oil industry. The study method is a combination of the sedimentary models for extensional basins (Gawthorpe et al., 1994; Howell & Flint, 1996) and the base-level sequence stratigraphy (Cross & Lessenger, 1998). This method has proved to be a reliable tool for the structurally controlled settings of the northern Upper Rhine Graben.
Science@NASA reports: High above Earth where seismic waves never reach, satellites may be able to detect earthquakes--before they strike.
For many people, earthquakes are synonymous with unpredictability. They strike suddenly on otherwise normal days, and despite all the achievements of seismology, scientists still can't provide warning of an impending quake in the way that weathermen warn of approaching storms.
