Sediment budget of pliocene and Quaternary unconsolidated deposits of the Rheingletscher area, Swiss midlands and the Upper Rhein Graben

这项拟议的研究项目的目的是将两位申请人过去在调查高山前陆和莱茵地堑的松散沉积物方面所采用的不同方法结合起来。一种方法（Ellwanger）旨在建立一种综合地层学，适用于所有五个相关的陆地系统，即高山内部过深山谷，高山前陆s.s（冰川盆地和Bodensee露天广场的冰碛地貌等），Hochrhein山谷（有许多阶地和埋藏的山谷）和莱茵格拉本作为“远端容纳空间”，但也包括“多瑙河岸”，在那里发现了（融水）阶地的“经典”景观。这是一种层序和事件地层学方法（参见所附的“Arbeitspapier”——讨论文件）。另一种方法（Hinderer）关注阿尔卑斯山脉的各种沉积物平衡，但主要是对阿尔卑斯山脉内莱茵和博登塞冰川盆地的冰期晚期和冰期后填充的详细案例研究。进一步的研究关注瑞士高山前陆的气候、隆起和剥蚀的相互作用。该项目的目的是平衡几个堆积旋回（冰川旋回），由此不仅可以独立控制地层方案，而且还可以进一步了解气候与构造之间的相互作用，甚至是远端堆积。

It is the purpose of this proposed research project to combine different approaches which the two applicants persued in the past with regard to the investigation of the unconsolidated Sediments of the alpine forelands and the Rheingraben. One approach (Ellwanger) aimed at working out a combined stratigraphy valid in all five landsystems concerned, i.e. the inneralpine overdeepened valleys, the alpine foreland s.s. (glacial basins and moraine landscape of the Bodensee amphitheater etc.), the Hochrhein valley (with numerous terraces and buried valleys) and the Rheingraben as a "distal accomodation space", but also including the "overbank to the Donau" where the "classical" landscape of (meltwater) terraces is found. This is a kind of a sequence- and event stratigraphic approach (cf. attached "Arbeitspapier" -- discussion paper). The other approach (Hinderer) is concerned with various sediment bilances in the Alps, but mainly a detailed case study of the late glacial and postglacial infill of the inneralpine Rhein and Bodensee glacial basin. Further studies concern the interaction of climate, uplift and denudation in the Swiss alpine foreland. It is the purpose of the proposed project, to bilance several accumulation cycles (glacial cycles), from which not only independand control of the stratigraphic scheme should result, but also further insight into interaction between climate and tectonic even regarding distal accumulation.