Rates of Uplift

Repeated precision leveling measurements for determining ground elevations have shown that the Alpine region compared with the Swiss Plateau is still rising. These precision measurements use about 8,000 reference marks whose elevation data serve as a reference for most measuring tasks in Switzerland. A measuring point in Aarburg (AG), serves as an arbitrary reference point for the investigating vertical movements. The two maximum rises of up to 1.5 mm per year, in the region between Sion and Brig in the Valais as well as in the Graubünden in Chur and in the Engadin, are striking. These are probably a direct result of plate tectonics or isostatic compensatory movements.

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Alternate title

Vertical movements

Date (Publication)
2015-12-31
Edition

2012

Edition date
2012-12-31T00:00:00
Identifier
ch.swisstopo.hebungsraten

Purpose

Determination of vertical movements

Status
Completed

Point of contact

Federal office of topography swisstopo, survey - Surveying Division (Geodesy and Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying)
Seftigenstrasse 264
Wabern
3084
CH
https://www.cadastre.ch/

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Extent

Description

Schweiz

Geographic identifier
Schweiz

Extent type code
1




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Unknown
geocat.ch Thesaurus

  • Alpine uplift

  • Heigths

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  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

GEMET

  • altitude

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Deutsch
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Metadata identifier
80a03e2f-7827-4497-8f0a-62ab8816d609

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Federal office of topography swisstopo, survey - Surveying Division (Geodesy and Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying)
Seftigenstrasse 264
Wabern
3084
CH
https://www.cadastre.ch/
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/80a03e2f-7827-4497-8f0a-62ab8816d609

Date info (Creation)
2015-08-18T10:50:09Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-04-13T09:21:44.381493Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

altitude
geocat.ch

FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
geocat.ch Thesaurus

Alpine uplift Heigths


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