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Abstract volume Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020, Zurich (online)

Shaping Earth: From Planet Accretion To Microbes

Abstract Volume SGM2020 Cover

1. Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics
2. Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry
3. Stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry: development and applications
4. Environmental Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements
5. Palaeontology
6. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology: processes and deposits through time
7. Seismic Hazard and Risk in Switzerland: From Science to Mitigation
8. Deep geothermal energy, CO2-storage and energy-related exploration of the subsurface
9. Quaternary environments: landscapes, climate, ecosystems and human activity during the past 2.6 million years
10. Geomorphology or Shaping Earth Surface
11. Soil: Formation, Processes, and Conservation
12. Cryospheric Sciences
13. Hydrology and Hydrogeology
14. Limnology in Switzerland and the new LéXPLORE infrastructure
15. Scientific Ocean Drilling: Driving Questions from a Swiss Prospective
16. Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Greenhouse Gases
+ 17. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
18. Climatology
19. Tackling the Climate Crisis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change Education and Communication
20. Remote Sensing of the Spheres
21. Geoscience and Geoinformation - From data acquisition to modelling and visualisation
22. Human Geographies: Bodies, Cultures, Societies
23. Human Geographies: Cities, Regions, Economies
24. Human Geographies: Materials, Natures, Politics
27. Mountains as contexts for global change: interdisciplinary experiences, challenges and new perspectives across the natural and social sciences

Authors: Dr Pierre Dèzes, Platform Geosciences
Publishing house: Swiss Academy of Sciences
Pages: 601

Categories

  • Cryosphere
  • Geochemistry
  • Geochronology
  • Geodesy
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Geomorphology
  • Geophysics
  • Geosciences
  • Geosphere
  • Geotechnics
  • Geothermics
  • Hydrogeology
  • Hydrology
  • Hydrology, Limnology, Glaciology
  • Limnology
  • Quarternary research