Stromatolitic carbonates formed in ancient microbial mats and provide unique geochemical archives to reconstruct palaeo-environments of microbial life. In this study, we report C-O isotopes and trace metal concentrations of Miocene stromatolites from the Oberpullendorf Basin (Austria) that were formed during the Badenian salinity crisis at the north-western coast of the Paratethys Sea. The combined approach of trace element data with C-O isotopes of individual stromatolite laminae is used to reconstruct short-term variations of palaeo-environmental...

The panalpine project "DOVE" (Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys), co-funded by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), is drilling a series of overdeepened glacial troughs around the Alps that were formed by subglacial erosion during past glaciations. The sedimentary fill of these troughs, consisting of multiple stacked and nested glacial sequences, provides the best archives of when and where glaciers reached the Alpine forelands. The combined data from all DOVE sites comprising synchronous or asynchronous...

The panalpine project "DOVE" (Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys), co-funded by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), is drilling a series of overdeepened glacial troughs around the Alps that were formed by subglacial erosion during past glaciations. In the northeastern section of the DOVE project, we (re)investigate the inneralpine basin of Bad Aussee (Traun glacier area, Austria), the subalpine basin of the Salzach Foreland glacier (Neusillersdorf, Bavaria), and the tongue basin area of the Pleistocene...