The Alps are amongst the best subduction archives in the world, with abundant blueschists
and eclogites preserving fragments of mantle, gabbros, thinned continental margin and …

The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of the Northern Apennine/Corsica
orogenic system, a classical and still-debated subject in the geology of the central …

Subduction-accretion complexes can be approximated as wedge-shaped continua with a
rigid buttress behind and a subducting litho-spheric slab beneath. Thick wedges undergoing …

The construction of five crustal-scale profiles across the Western Alps and the Ivrea mantle
wedge integrates up-to-date geological and geophysical information and reveals important …

Abstract The Simplon Fault Zone occurs at the western end of the Lepontine metamorphic
dome in the Central Alps and represents a major, low-angle (25° dip) normal fault …

The Alps have been interpreted traditionally in terms of north-or northwest-directed
convergence between Africa and Europe1, with Adria (the continental underpinnings of the …

The NW–SE-trending sector of the SW Alps includes the Dora Maira massif where Tertiary
eclogites record ultrahigh pressures and rapid exhumation. Along a NE–SW crustal cross …

Tertiary foreland sedimentation in SE France occurred along the western sidewall of the
Alpine orogen during collision of the Apulian indentor with the European passive margin. A …

Foreland basin sedimentary strata are key records of orogenic development, but identifying
detrital thermochronometers of appropriate temperature sensitivity to detect provenance …

We review estimates of collisional shortening along the Alpine Chain and reassess its
amounts, showing that it increases from south to north in the Western Alps, attaining a …