Recent crustal movements in the Alpine-Mediterrane an region analyzed in the Swiss ALPS

The most recent results of uplift rates determined by repeated precise levelling, are analyzed in terms of geodynamic processes still going on in the region of the Alpine-Mediterranean plate boundary. Special emphasis is focused on levelling nets in the Swiss Alps which have been remeasured for the second time. A comparison of these geodetic results with geophysical information, such as gravity anomalies and explosion seismic results, as well as seismicity, provides further evidence that these sets of data are interrelated with each other. An attempt is made to estimate the strain energy associated with the crustal deformation by introducing first-order stress-strain relationships.