Triassic Deposits of Hrvatsko Zagorje

In the area of Hrvatsko Zagorje, Triassic deposits crop-out in the form of tectonic emplacements, forming the cores of all the major mountains. They also underlie Neogene deposits, as proven in numerous boreholes. During the Triassic period, continuous sedimentation occurred mainly in shallow marine environments, though transient subsidence occurred in the Anisian and Ladinian epochs. In the Lower Triassic, the nearshore clastic and carbonate sediments were deposited, which were succeeded in the Middle and Upper Triassic by shallow-water limestones. The latter for their most part have undergone later dolomitisation. Owing to rapid subsidence during Middle Anisian and Ladinian times, sedimentation of the fine-grained clastics, pelagic limestones and cherts occurred together with local volcanic intrusions

Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age

The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - with data collected between 2020 and 2022 - to assess measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated that full scalar invariance was upheld across all nations, languages, gender identities, and age groups, suggesting that the unidimensional BAS-2 model has widespread applicability. There were large differences across nations and languages in latent body appreciation, while differences across gender identities and age groups were negligible-to-small. Additionally, greater body appreciation was significantly associated with higher life satisfaction, being single (versus being married or in a committed relationship), and greater rurality (versus urbanicity). Across a subset of nations where nation-level data were available, greater body appreciation was also significantly associated with greater cultural distance from the United States and greater relative income inequality. These findings suggest that the BAS-2 likely captures a near-universal conceptualisation of the body appreciation construct, which should facilitate further cross-cultural research

Triassic Deposits of Hrvatsko Zagorje

In the area of Hrvatsko Zagorje, Triassic deposits crop-out in the form of tectonic emplacements, forming the cores of all the major mountains. They also underlie Neogene deposits, as proven in numerous boreholes. During the Triassic period, continuous sedimentation occurred mainly in shallow marine environments, though transient subsidence occurred in the Anisian and Ladinian epochs. In the Lower Triassic, the nearshore clastic and carbonate sediments were deposited, which were succeeded in the Middle and Upper Triassic by shallow-water limestones. The latter for their most part have undergone later dolomitisation. Owing to rapid subsidence during Middle Anisian and Ladinian times, sedimentation of the fine-grained clastics, pelagic limestones and cherts occurred together with local volcanic intrusions