Publications

peer-reviewed, isi-listed

Heberer, B., Holzner, E., Tenczer, V., Finger, F., Salcher, B., Dunkl, I., Gerdes, A., Egger, H. Friedl, G., Tari, G., Parlea, M., Putz, H. in press. Looking Under the Orogenic Lid—Assessing the European Basement Beneath the Alpine Wedge by U‐Pb Zircon Geochronology. Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026TC009470. 

Villamizar-Escalante, N., von Hagke, C., Pollhammer, T., Dremel, F., Liebl, M., Salcher, B., Robl., J., Friedrichs, B., Meschis, M., in press. From Slab to Surface Response: Spatial Variability of Exhumation and Uplift in the Calabrian Arc. Global and Planetary Change.

Salcher, B., Neuhuber, S.M., Otto, J.-C., Payer, T., Lüthgens, C., Fuchs, S., Flores-Orozco, A., Nørgaard, J., Grupe, S., Marchhart, O., Wieser, A., Lachner, J., Fiebig, M. Ruszkiczay‑Rüdiger, Zs., 2026. Quaternary terrace formation in response to climate, regional uplift and local normal faulting: The Danube terrace staircase of Vienna. Quaternary Science Reviews 373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109709.

Al Schameri, S., Plattner, B., Rainer, L., Gampe, H., Salcher, B., Grebosz-Haring, K., Klettner, M.-C-, Winds, K., 2026. Effects of a Dance-Based Intervention on Affective States and Self-Esteem in Adolescents Receiving Psychiatric Care: Differences Between Youth with and Without Problematic Internet Use—A Pilot Study. Behavioral Sciences 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16020170.

Griesmeier, G.E.U., Le Heron, D.P., Lüthgens, C., Firla, G., Salcher, B., Dremel, F., Otto, J.-C., Reitner, J., 2025. Middle to Late Pleistocene landscape evolution and glacial dynamics in the Eastern Alps: the Gröbminger Mitterberg record (Austria). Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70045. 

Broś, E., Ivy-Ochs, S., Pollhammer, T., Kober, F., Grischott, R.,  Salcher, B., Nørgaard, J., Knudsen, M. F., Vockenhuber, C., Christl, M., Gautschi, P., Maden, C., Ylä-Mella, L., Jansen, J. D., Landgraf, A., Synal, H. A., 2025. Comprehensive temporal and spatial analysis of Early Pleistocene drainage patterns on the Swiss Alpine foreland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 50. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70000.

Winds, K., Plattner, B., Salcher, B., Langthaler, P.B., Kohlböck, G., Fuchs, M., Schaffer, P., Rainer, L.J., 2025. Adverse childhood experiences and problematic use of the internet among a child and adolescent psychiatric clinical population. Comprehensive Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2025.152586. 

Gegg, L., Salcher, B., Pollhammer, T., Cohen, D., Fischer, U., Landgraf, A., 2025. An inventory of subglacial overdeepenings in Southern Germany and Austria. Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12693.

Salcher, B., Starnberger, R., Pollhammer T., Götz, J., 2024. Sediment dynamics of a major piedmont glacier: the Salzach Glacier in the North Alpine Foreland. DEUQUA Special Publications 5. https://doi.org/10.5194/deuquasp-5-31-2024.

Heberer, B., Salcher, B., Tari, G., Wessely, G., Dunkl, I., Sachsenhofer, R., Wagreich, M., von Hagke, C., 2024. The impact of the Bohemian spur on the cooling and exhumation pattern of the Eastern Alpine wedge of the European Alps. Tectonics 43. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008005.

Winds, K., Marka, T., Salcher, B., Rieser, N., Skrivanek, C., Hochrainer, M., Trost-Schrems, J., Rainer, L. J., Hitzl, W., Augner, C. & Plattner, B., 2024. Glow up: Does a professional photoshoot intervention affect self-esteem and emotions among adolescent psychiatric patients? A longitudinal intervention study. Frontiers in Psychiatry 15.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1310252.

Kamleiter, S., Ivy-Ochs, S., Salcher, B., Reitner, J., 2024. Reconstructing basal ice flow patterns of the Last Glacial Maximum Rhine glacier (northern Alpine foreland) based on streamlined subglacial landforms. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 49. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5733. 

Habel, J., Schmitt, T. , Ulrich, W, Gross, P., Salcher, B., Teucher, M., 2023. Landscape homogenization correlates with decreasing butterfly diversity. Landscape Ecology 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01785-w.

Hejl, E., Heberer, B., Salcher, B., Sekyra, G., Van den haute, P., Leichmann. J., 2023. Thermochronological constraints on the post-Variscan exhumation history of the southeastern Bohemian Massif (Waldviertel and Weinsberg Forest, Austria): palaeogeographic and geomorphologic implications. International Journal of Earth Sciences 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02294-6.

Anselmetti, F., Bavec, M., Crouzet, C., Fiebig, M., Gabriel, G., Preusser, F., Ravazzi, C., DOVE Scientific Team, 2022. Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (ICDP-DOVE): Quantifying the age, extent, and environmental impact of Alpine glaciations. Scientific Drilling 31. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-31-51-2022.

Argentin, A. L., Hauthaler, T., Liebl, M., Robl, J., Hergarten, S., Prasicek, G., Salcher, B., Hölbling, D., Pfalzner-Gibbon, C., Mandl, L., Maroschek, M., Abad, L. & Dabiri, Z., 2022. Influence of rheology on landslide-dammed lake impoundment and sediment trapping: Back-analysis of the Hintersee landslide dam. Geomorphology 414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108363.

Bernsteiner, H., Götz, J., Salcher, B., Lang, A., 2021. From deglaciation to postglacial filling: Post-LGM evolution of an isolated glacier system at the northern fringe of the Eastern Alps (Austria). Geografisker Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2021.1933958.

Salcher, B., Prasicek, G., Baumann, S., Kober, F., 2021. Alpine relief limited by glacial occupation time. Geology 49. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48639.1

Delunel, R.,  Schlunegger, F., Valla, P.G., Dixon, J., Glotzbach, C., Hippe, K., Kober, K., Molliex, S., Norton, K.P., Salcher, B., Wittmann, H., Akçar, N., Christl, M., 2020.  Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps. Earth-Science Reviews 211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103407.

Kober, F., Hippe, K., Salcher, B., Grischott, R., Zurfluh, R., Hajdas, I., Christl, M., Ivy-Ochs, S., 2019. Postglacial to Holocene landscape evolution and process rates in steep alpine catchments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/esp.4491.

Baumann, S., Robl., J., Prasicek, G., Salcher, B., Keil., M., 2018. The effects of lithology and base level on topography in the northern alpine foreland. Geomorphology 313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.04.006.

Götz, J., Salcher, B., Starnberger, R., Krisai, R., 2018. Geophysical, topographic and stratigraphic analyses of perialpine kettles and implications for postglacial mire formation. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2018.1446638.

Salcher, B., Frank-Fellner, C., Lomax, J., Preusser, F., Ottner, F., Scholger, R., 2017. Middle to Late Pleistocene multi-proxy record of environmental response to climate change from the Vienna Basin, Central Europe (Austria). Quaternary Science Reviews 173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.014.

Pomper, J., Salcher, B.*, Eichkitz, C., Prasicek, G., Lang, A., Lindner, M., Götz, J., 2017.  The glacially overdeepened trough of the Salzach Valley, Austria: Bedrock geometry and sedimentary fill of a major Alpine subglacial basin. Geomorphology 295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.07.009.

Zamolyi, A., Salcher, B., Draganits, E., Exner, U., Wagreich, M., Gier, S., Fiebig, M., Lomax, J., Suranyi, Diel, M., Zamolyi, F., 2017: Latest Pannonian and Quaternary evolution at the transition between Eastern Alps and Pannonian Basin: New insights from geophysical, sedimentological and geochronological data. International Journal of Earth Sciences 106. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00531-016-1383-3. 

Grischott, R., Kober, F., Lupker, M., Hippe, K., Ivy-Ochs, S., Hajdas, I., Salcher, B.,  Christl, M., 2016: Constant denudation rates in a high alpine catchment for the last 6 kyr. Earth Surface  Processes and Landforms 42. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.4070/epdf.

Wessely, G., Neubauer, F., Salcher, B., Wagreich, M., 2016: A snapshot from the front of the Northern Calcareous Alps: Well Obermoos TH-1, Salzburg, Austria. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 109. https://doi.org/10.17738/ajes.2016.0014.

Salcher, B., Starnberger, R., Götz J., 2015: The last and penultimate glaciation in the North Alpine Foreland: New stratigraphical and chronological data from the Salzach glacier. Quaternary International 338. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215010368.

Robl, J., Prasicek, G., Hergarten, S., Salcher, B., 2015: Glacial cirques and the relationship between equilibrium line altitudes and mountain range height: Forum Comment. Geology, http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/geology/43/6/e365.full.pdf.

Salcher, B., Kober, F., Kissling, E., Willett, S., 2014: Glacial impact on short-wavelength topography and long-lasting effects on the denudation of a deglaciated mountain range. Global and Planetary Change 115. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818114000113?via%3Dihub.

Claude, A., Ivy-Ochs, S. Kober, F., Antognini, M. Salcher, B., Kubik, P.W., 2014: The Chironico landslide (Valle Leventina, southern Swiss Alps): age and evolution. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 107. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00015-014-0170-z.pdf.

Büchi, M., Kober, F., Ivy-Ochs, S., Salcher, B., Kubik, P.W., Christl, M., 2014: Denudation rates of transient catchments controlled by former glaciation: The Hörnli Nunatak in the Swiss Alpine Foreland. Quaternary Geochronolgy 19. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871101413000654.

Kober, F., Hippe, K., Salcher, B., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P., 2012: Debris-flow-dependent variation of cosmogenically derived catchment-wide denudation rates. Geology 40. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/article/40/10/935/130734/debris-flow-dependent-variation-of-cosmogenically.

Sternai, P., Herman, F., Champagnac, J-D., Salcher, B., Fox, M.R., Willett, S.D., 2012: The preglacial topography of the European Alps. Geology 40. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/article/40/12/1067/130755/pre-glacial-topography-of-the-european-alps.

Salcher, B., Meurers, B., Smit J., Decker, K., Hölzel, M. Wagreich, M., 2012:  Strike-slip tectonics and Quaternary basin formation along the Vienna Basin fault system inferred from Bouguer gravity derivatives. Tectonics 31. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011TC002979/full.

Salcher, B., Hinsch R., Wagreich M., 2010c: High-resolution mapping of glacial landforms in the North Alpine Foreland, Austria. Geomorphology 122. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X09004127. 

Salcher, B., Wagreich M., 2010b: Climate and tectonic controls on Pleistocene sequence development and river evolution in the Southern Vienna Basin (Austria). Quaternary International 222. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618209001505.

Salcher, B., Faber R., Wagreich, M., 2010a: Climate as main factor controlling the sequence development of two Pleistocene alluvial fans in the Vienna Basin (eastern Austria) — A numerical modelling approach. Geomorphology 115. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X09002803.

* corresponding, student is first

other paper publications

Salcher, B., 2024. Preface: Quaternary landscape dynamics in the Eastern Alps, from the highest peaks to the North Alpine Foreland–a guidebook to field trips. DEUQUA Special Publications 5, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.5194/deuquasp-5-1-2024. 

Salcher, B., Starnberger, R., Götz, J., 2018: Sediment‐landform associations of major glaciations in the North Alpine Foreland. Field Trip Post‐EX‐3. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 126.

Priesack, T., Plinninger, R., Alber, M., Salcher, B., 2016: Systematische Analyse innovativer Installationsverfahren für Porenwasserdruckgeber. Extended Abstract, 10. Kolloquium, Bauen in Boden und Fels.

Götz, J., Otto, J.-C., Salcher, B., Buckel J., 2015. Methodische Potentiale der modernen Geomorphologie für die Analyse, Quantifizierung und Rekonstruktion von Erdoberflächenprozessen. GW-Unterricht 138. http://www.gw-unterricht.at/images/pdf/gwu_138_05_26_goetz.pdf.

Eichkitz, C.G., Amtmann, J., Schreilechner, M.G., Salcher, B., 2011: Integrated 3D Structural Modeling - Different Data Sets to Characterize a Geothermal Reservoir, Extended Abstract of the 73rd EAGE Conference.

Salcher, B., Wessely, G., Eichkitz, C., Wagreich, M., 2011: Geothermisches Potential Wien Ost und südlich angrenzender Gebiete. Bericht für die OMV Exploration & Produktion, 57 pp

Salcher, B., Götzl, G., 2007: Deep heat mining in the Austrian Alps – a preliminary look on  possibilities and limitations. Proceedings of the Thirty Second Workshop on Geothermal  Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, California. https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/pdf/IGAstandard/SGW/2007/salcher.pdf.

Salcher, B., 2010: Eiszeitliche Spuren des Salzachgletschers in Oberösterreich, VDM, ISBN-3639219503, 136 pp.