Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt GeoMol – Assessing subsurface potentials of the Alpine Foreland Basins for sustainable planning and use of natural resources Project Report Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt GeoMol – Assessing subsurface potentials of the Alpine Foreland Basins for sustainable planning and use of natural resources Project Report The GeoMol Team (2015) Imprint GeoMol – Assessing subsurface potentials of the Alpine Foreland Basins for sustainable planning and use of natural resources. Project Report Publisher: Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU) Bavarian Environment Agency Bürgermeister-Ulrich-Straße 160 86179 Augsburg phone: 0821 9071-0 fax: 0821 9071-5556 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.lfu.bayern.de Authors: The GeoMol Team (2015) Gerold W. Diepolder1 (editor in chief), Robin Allenbach2, Roland Baumberger2, Magdalena Bottig3, Agnès Brenot4, Anna Katharina Brüstle3, Alessandro Cagnoni5, Laure Capar4, Renaud Couëffé4, Chiara d’Ambrogi6, Chrystel Dezayes4, Mirjam Dürst Stucki2, Charlotte Fehn7, Fernando Ferri6, Sunsearé Gabalda4, Paul Gabriel8, Jan Gietzel8, Gregor Götzl3, Katja Koren9, Pascal Kuhn2, Eva Kurmann-Matzenauer2, Andrej Lapanje9, Simon Lopez4, Francesco Emanuele Maesano6, Stéphane Marc4, Salomè Michael2, Fabio Carlo Molinari10, Edgar Nitsch7, Robert Pamer1, Sebastian Pfleiderer3, Andrea Piccin5, Maria Ponzio2, Dušan Rajver9, Lance Reynolds2, Igor Rižnar9, Nina Rman9, Isabel Rupf7, Uta Schulz1, Stephan Sieblitz1, Helmut Schaeben8, Dejan Šram9, Giulio Torri10, Gunther Wirsing7, Heiko Zumsprekel7. 1LfU, 2swisstopo, 3GBA, 4BRGM, 5RLB, 6ISPRA, 7LGRB, 8TU BAF, 9GeoZS, 10RER-SGSS With contributions of: Pierfrancesco Burrato (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV), Giancarlo Scardia (Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR IGAG), Susanne Caspar & Kai Zosseder (TU Munich) Editorial assistance: Steve Mathers, British Geological Survey (BGS) Technical editing: LfU Referat 13, Sabine Schmidbauer Picture Credits: Unless indicated otherwise: GeoMol Team Printing: Schmid Druck + Medien GmbH & Co.KG, 86687 Kaisheim Printed on 100 % recycled paper Website: http://www.geomol.eu First edition: June 2015 © 2015 Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt on behalf of the GeoMol Team This report is protected by intellectual property rights. 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The GeoMol Consortium: Lead Partner Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU) – Geologischer Dienst Project Partners Bureau de Recherches Amt der Oberösterreichischen Géologiques et Minières Schweizerisches Bundesamt für Geološki zavod Landesregierung (LandOö) (BRGM) Energie (BfE) Slovenije (GeoZS) Geologische Regione Lombardia (RLB) – Bundesanstalt Istituto Superiore per la Protezione Direzione Generale Territorio e Urbanistica Österreich (GBA) e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) Regierungspräsidium Freiburg – Landes- Regione Emilia-Romagna – amt für Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau Regionalverband Bodensee – Servizio Geologico, Sismico e dei Suoli Baden-Württemberg (LGRB) Oberschwaben (RVBO) (RER-SGSS) République et Canton de Genève – Technische Universität Schweizerisches Bundesamt für Département de l'environnement, des Bergakademie Freiberg Landestopografie (swisstopo) transports et de l'agriculture (DETA) (TU BAF) The GeoMol Team: Robin Allenbach1, Nathalie Andenmatten2, Jure Atanackov12, Roland Baumberger1, Magdalena Bottig3, Agnès Brenot4, Anna- Katharina Brüstle3, Alessandro Cagnoni5, Laure Capar4, Nicolas Clerc2, Renaud Couëffé4, Gabriel Courrioux4, Chiara d’Ambrogi6, Chrystel Dezayes4, Gerold W. Diepolder7, Mirjam Dürst Stucki1, Charlotte Fehn8, Fernando Ferri6, Sunsearé Gabalda4, Paul Gabriel9, Jan Gietzel9, Gregor Götzl3, Oliver Kempf1, Guido Köberle10, Christoph Kollmer11, Pascal Kuhn1, Eva Kurmann-Matze- nauer1, Andrej Lapanje12, Simon Lopez4, Francesco Emanuele Maesano6, Stéphane Marc4, Michel Meyer2, Salomè Michael1, Fabio Carlo Molinari13, Gennaro Maria Monti6, Edgar Nitsch8, Nils Oesterling1, Robert Pamer7, Marco Pantaloni6, Sebastian Pflei- derer3, Andrea Piccin5, Maria Ponzio1, Clemens Porpaczy3, Dušan Rajver12, Damien Rambourg4, Lance Reynolds1, Nina Rman12, Isabel Rupf8, Uta Schulz7, Gunter Siddiqi14, Stephan Sieblitz7, Helmut Schaeben9, Matthias Selg8, Yves Siméon4, Günter Sokol8, Dejan Šram12, Gunther Wirsing8, Heiko Zumsprekel8. 1swisstopo, 2DETA, 3GBA, 4BRGM, 5RLB, 6ISPRA, 7LfU, 8LGRB, 9TU BAF, 10RVBO, 11LandOö, 12GeoZS, 13RER-SGSS, 14BfE GeoMol Project Report 3 Preface Preface from the Alpine Convention Focal Point The final report of this project states that geology does not respect political boundaries. This statement can be applied to many features of the Alpine region – to rivers, biodiversity, mountain forests, glaciers, the clean mountain air, air pollutants and also to the transport routes that run right across the Alps. Each project under the Alpine Space Programme addresses this fact by means of transboundary cooperation with as many partners as possible across the Alpine countries and thus makes a concrete contribution to transnational decision-making in line with national regulations. Silvia Reppe In my opinion, this mirrors the core principle of the Alpine Convention, Focal Point namely the joint contribution of all Alpine countries to protecting and Alpine Convention sustainably developing the region using a comprehensive policy. Germany We have placed this comprehensive approach at the heart of the program- Federal Ministry for me for the German presidency of the Alpine Convention for 2015–2016. the Environment, Concrete joint projects of the Alpine countries, in particular those falling Nature Conservation, under the Alpine Space Programme, are, for Germany, a valuable means Building and Nuclear of demonstrating the practical implementation of the Alpine Convention and Safety are important for awareness of the convention at local level. Therefore, our objective is to sustainably support the distribution and application of project results from the 2007–2013 funding period and to intensively use the possi- bilities of the INTERREG V B Alpine Space Programme 2014–2020 funding period for new projects. The good results achieved by projects such as GeoMol have impressively highlighted what the Alpine countries can achieve together. The conclusion I personally draw from this is that the Alpine Convention, contrary to the criticism often voiced, represents the solid foundations and well-functioning structures of this Alpine-wide cooperation. 4 The GeoMol Team (2015) Preface Preface from EuroGeoSurveys Among the most important challenges towards the further development of European society that the European Commission has prioritised are securing access to energy, water and natural resources, and the mitigation of natural hazards and climate change. In these domains the use of geological know- ledge and spatial information on the subsurface is crucial to assist stake- holders from policy, research and industry in implementing sustainable solutions. The long-term management of geological data and information systems is the core responsibility of any Geological Survey Organisation as the legal custodians of the subsurface, at national or regional levels. Since all GSOs a have a national rather than an overarching mandate, knowledge reposito- Koen Verbruggen ries and investigation activities are following separating political boundaries rather than connecting geological settings. Cross-border collaboration is not President yet common unless stimulated by European funding or legislation. EuroGeoSurveys Owing to EU cohesion policy, recently there are a number of cross-border projects geared towards interoperable, harmonised geoscientific informati- on in multiple domains. However,