208 research outputs found
SNSF Datastory - Key role in evaluation procedure: the evaluation panels and their members
No full textThe SNSF’s National Research Council decides whether or not to fund applications. The 89 evaluation panels handle the preparatory work on which it bases its decisions, assessing several thousand applications each year.
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Author(s): Julius Mattern
Publication date: 2021-12-2
Triple folded surface morphology of Neoproterozoic rocks (Jabal Akhdar Dome, Oman Mountains) – Insights into buttressing effects and regional tectonics
No full textNorthern Oman was obducted by allochthonous rocks, including the Semail Ophiolite, during the Cretaceous, which generally hampers field investigations on autochthonous rocks. However, central parts of the Jabal Akhdar Dome provide insights into sub-allochthonous deformation patterns from northern Oman because autochthonous Arabian rocks are exposed. Field survey and satellite image analysis reveal triple-folded autochthonous Neoproterozoic rocks. In the Neoproterozoic succession, carbonates are more resistant to erosion than the under- and overlaying siliciclastics and shape present-day morphology in the superbly exposed surface of the Hat Plateau, where anticlines and synclines coincide with ridges and troughs, respectively.
Previously unrecognized F1 folds are NNE-verging, overturned and tight with amplitudes of 10–100 s of meters, have ESE-oriented fold axes, and display a gently to moderately SSW-dipping penetrative axial-plane cleavage. F1 structures are re-folded by open-tight upright kilometric F2 folds, with NE/NNE-oriented fold axes and a penetrative NE/NNE-striking sub-vertical axial-plane cleavage. A younger ∼WNW-trending broad anticline (F3) exhibits a widely spaced sub-vertical ESE-striking axial-plane cleavage.
The F2 deformation style is heterogeneous. In the West, the NE/ENE-oriented F2 folds are ∼3 km in amplitude and gently plunging. In the East, the NNE-oriented folds are <1 km in amplitude and non-plunging. The change ensues abruptly along a NNE-oriented zone at the western end of the Hat Plateau. The pre-existing NNE-oriented western flank of the Makarem-Mabrouk High/Horst in the subsurface controlled this change, exerting a buttressing effect with less deformation in the East
Pandora's Signal Boxes
No full textIncluded here, dear reader, is a discussion that took place between media and design author and scholar Shannon Mattern and perennial continent. probationer Jamie Allen. The conversation occurred on a rather rainy and cold day, on a walk that Shannon and Jamie took through Basel, Switzerland, toward the Central Signal Box building. Shannon Mattern had come to Switzerland at Jamie’s invitation, as part of a lecture series called “Medialogue”, held jointly by the Critical Media Lab Basel and the Medienwissenschaft group at Universität Basel. The Signal Box is an infrastructural landmark that delimits a transition between residential and (formerly) industrial zones in Kanton Basel-Stadt. The building was designed by locals, stalwart innovators and ‘starchitects’ Herzog and Herzog & de Meuron, whose numerous offices and archives in Basel are all but a few minutes’ tram-ride away.https://continentcontinent.cc/archives/issues/issue-5-3-2016/pandora-s-signal-boxe
SNSF Datastory - Open Access in 2020: up by 8 percentage points
No full textOpen Access in 2020: up by 8 percentage points
SNSF-funded research produced a total of 13,938 publications in 2020, 63% of which are freely accessible. Upgrades in monitoring capabilities make the positive trend towards more Open Access (OA) more readily visible.
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Author(s): Tobias Philipp, Julius Mattern
Publication date: 2022-04-2
SNSF Datastory - 70 years of the SNSF: from a few million to a billion
No full textThe SNSF has been awarding grants to research projects across all scientific disciplines since 1952. How has the amount of funding evolved over time?
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Author(s): This Rutishauser, Daniel Schnyder, Julius Mattern
Publication date: 2022-08-1
The Emotional Politics of Transnational Crime
No full textThe University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/mershon09/110609.mp4Janice Bially Mattern is associate professor of international relations at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on the social dynamics of world political orders and their transformations. She teaches courses on international relations theory, criminality and transnational crime, international ethics, sovereignty, as well as international organization, especially global governance and transformations in world order. Her current project, tentatively entitled Illicit Sovereigns, examines the role of emotion in mobilizing transnational crime networks to transnational political violence. Bially Mattern is the author of Ordering International Politics: Identity, Crisis, and Representational Force (Routledge, 2005). She has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on topics ranging from soft power and language power to the politics of identity. She previously worked as a political risk analyst in New York City and as a policy analyst in Washington, D.C., during which time she co-authored Measuring National Power in a Post-Industrial Age (RAND, 2000). Bially Mattern received her B.A. in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She studied International Relations at Yale Unviersity, receiving her M.A., her M.Phil., and her Ph.D., which was awarded with distinction in December 1998.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studie
Datastory: The SNSF funds over 80% of researchers from Switzerland before their first ERC grant
No full textDatastory: The SNSF funds over 80% of researchers from Switzerland before their first ERC grant
Researchers working in Switzerland are very successful with applications to the European Research Council (ERC). Our analysis shows: By 2019, 84% of these grantees had previously received funding from the SNSF.
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Author(s): Julius Mattern, Georges Klein
DOI: 10.46446/datastory.erc-grantees-snsf-grants / 10.5281/zenodo.4787966
Publication date: 2021-05-0
Microfacies and composition of ferruginous beds at the platform-foreland basin transition (Late Albian to Turonian Natih Formation, Oman Mountains): Forebulge dynamics and regional to global tectono-geochemical framework
No full textTwo forebulge successions exist in the Oman Mountains at the platform-foreland basin transition between the Late Albian to Turonian Natih Formation and the foreland basin shales of the Late Cretaceous Muti Formation. Forebulge creation is suggested by limestone microfacies analyses and analyses of ferruginous crusts and oolites, showing rapid changes in bathymetry and relative sedimentation rate. Each succession displays basal shallow subtidal limestone, passing upward directly to ferruginous crusts and then to Fe-rich oolites deposited in shallower and agitated water. Each succession is topped by clayey layers. Microfacies and lithological evolution of the two successions are alike, suggesting repetitively similar depositional and tectonic conditions. As both sequences occur at the same site, lateral forebulge migration possibly did not occur, suggesting an overall stationary vertical and stepwise forebulge development. The compositional evolution of the ferruginous crusts was complex and includes postdepositional diagenetic effects of the rocks. Both ferruginous crusts once consisted of iron sulfides, implying at least slightly reducing conditions during their formation, associated with water-deepening events. Both oolite levels contain chlorite, hematite, quartz, calcite and apatite. They also contain fragments of chlorite and hematite as nuclei, suggesting that these fragments derived from preexisting ferruginous crusts. Iron oxyhydroxides and clinochlore within the oolites reflects bathymetric changes to more oxidizing aqueous conditions, associated with water-shallowing events. Fe-rich anoxic to suboxic sea water of the marine foreland basin was the source for the crusts and oolites which coincided with a high rate of global Cretaceous ocean crust production and related hydrothermalism as well as the regional proximity of an active spreading axis. Fe was probably stabilized in ocean water as organic Fe complexes and Fe colloids. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Neogene to Quaternary uplift history along the passive margin of the northeastern Arabian Peninsula, eastern Al Hajar Mountains, Oman
No full textThis work explores the uplift history of the best exposed marine terraces in the northeastern Arabian Peninsula (eastern Al Hajar Mountains). A multidisciplinary approach was employed, including a topographic survey, 14C dating, thin section studies, and scanning electron microscopy analyses. Six distinctive marine terraces with widths ranging from tenth of meters to kilometers and elevations from 5 to ~400 m were studied. These terraces record an along-strike heterogeneous uplift history, while they show temporally variable uplift rates ranging between 0.9 to 6.7 mm/yr, which correlates well with other published uplift rates of marine terraces of the eastern Arabian Peninsula. We attribute the variable uplift along strike of the terraces, to a combination of uplift mechanisms: (1) during early to mid-Miocene along deep-rooted reverse faults that bound large crustal-scale blocks, (2) Pliocene or post-Pliocene uplift on the outer wall of the forebulge of the lower Arabian Plate as it bends to enter the Zagros-Makran subduction zone, and (3) a possible slowdown of subduction for the past ~40 ka
The Ediacaran Hiyam Formation: A zoom through the diagenetic and structural complexity of the metamorphic Hi2 Member, Saih Hatat Dome, Oman Mountains
No full textThis is the first diagenetic study of the metamorphic upper Hiyam Member “Hi2” of the Saih Hatat Dome. Despite metamorphism, texture and paragenesis of the Hi2 Member are so well preserved that it is possible to unravel its diagenetic evolution. We applied lithological and structural field methods, transmission and cathodoluminescence microscopy to establish the paragenetic sequence and vein-forming deformation. Our work reveals a complex diagenetic and structural history, including several alternating dolomitization, calcite precipitation, silicification and fracturing events. Most of the replacive dolomite and silica are linked to early diagenesis under intertidal to sabkha and restricted marine as well as to terrestrial conditions. Evaporation of sea water concentrated Mg2+ and triggered extensive early dolomitization while silica-bearing fluids caused local silicification. Various generations of dolomite and calcite cements pervasively occluded macropores, micropores and veins. Late burial is reflected by pressure solution seams/stylolites, non-ferroan to weakly ferroan saddle-type dolomite cement and non-ferroan blocky and drusy calcite cement, filling veins and macropores. The various generations of calcite cements (e.g., in veins) are considered to have formed during burial or possibly meteoric conditions. The latter potentially resulted from tectonic uplift, while late dolomite cement displays hydrocarbon residues from coeval oil migration. A later minor oil migration event has also been recognized. Initial fracture/fissure formation is most likely related to folding during the Early Cambrian Angudan Orogeny (open NW-SE fractures) and to divergence during the Late Paleozoic Pangean/Neo-Tethys rifting (open NW-SE fractures). Metamorphism impacted the Hi2 Member, resulting in phyllite formation, phyllosilicate crystallization and ductile shearing. Metamorphism occurred during shallow Late Cretaceous subduction. Striking lithological similarities between the Hi2 Member and that of the upper Kharus Formation of the Jabal Akhdar region could indicate their lateral equivalence
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