A new reconstruction of Alpine Tethys combines plate-kinematic modelling with a wealth of
geological data and seismic tomography to shed light on its evolution, from sea-floor …

Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan
passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic …

The kinematic understanding of the relationship between relative plate motion and the
structure of orogenic belts depends upon a knowledge of relative plate motion across the …

Field and radiometric data are used to describe and date strain and stress states in southern
(longitude 88° to 91° E, latitude 28° to 30° N) and western Tibet (longitude 79° to 82° E …

Recently, two international deep seismic campaigns in the western and central Alps (Etude
Continentale et Océanique par Reflexion et Refraction Sismique‐Progetto Strategico Crosta …

This overview summarizes aspects of 150 years of research in Alpine tectonics and in
particular introduces the tectonic setting for the more detailed papers in this volume. The …

The origin of forces driving the deformation of the continental crust near subduction zones
and especially in backarc regions is debated. This work is based on a compilation of SKS …

The regional traces of folds, faults, and foliations found in many fold‐thrust belts are bent in
plan view. It proves valuable to distinguish between two types of bent orogens based on …

Positive structural inversion involves the uplift of rocks on the hanging-walls of faults, by dip
slip or oblique slip movements. Controlling factors include the strike and dip of the earlier …

The Sesia zone (Italian Western Alps) offers one of the best preserved examples of pre‐
Alpine basement reactivated, under eclogite facies conditions, during the Alpine orogenesis …