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Mapping Vienna’s hidden depths

11 Apr 2019 Liz Kalaugher
Austria Center Vienna
Outside the main entrance to the Austria Center Vienna, where the EGU meeting is taking place, the anthropogenic sediment is more than 8 m thick, whereas beneath the press centre inside the building it’s less than 1 m thick. (Image credit Robert F. Tobler [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] via Wikimedia Commons)
In places beneath Vienna, the depth of sediment containing man-made material is as much as 42 m. And

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Liz Kalaugher is a freelance science journalist based in Bristol, UK
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