This study reviews and synthesizes the present knowledge on the Sesia–Dent Blanche
nappes, the highest tectonic elements in the Western Alps (Switzerland and Italy), which …

The investigation of large landslides in high alpine environments is often hindered by the
difficult accessibility of the mountainous terrain. Efforts are typically concentrated on the …

The Sesia Zone within the Tertiary arc of the western Alps is a relic of the subducted part of
the Adriatic continental margin along the SE border of the Tethyan ocean. The Sesia Zone …

During the late Palaeozoic, lithospheric thinning in part of the Alpine realm caused high-
temperature low-to-medium pressure metamorphism and partial melting in the lower crust …

Abstract The Western Alpine Sesia–Lanzo Zone (SLZ) is a sliver of eclogite-facies
continental crust exhumed from mantle depths in the hanging wall of a subducted oceanic …

Terrane accretion is a ubiquitous process of plate tectonics that delivers fragments of
subduction-resistant lithosphere into a subduction zone, resulting in events such as ocean …

Convergent plate margins typically experience a transition from subduction to collision
dynamics as massive continental blocks enter the subduction channel. Studies of high …

The assemblage garnet–chloritoid–kyanite is shown to be quite common in high‐pressure
eclogite facies metapelites from orogenic belts around the world, and occurs over a narrowly …

Contiguous continental high-pressure terranes in orogens offer insight into deep recycling
and transformation processes that occur in subduction zones. These remain poorly …

A numerical modelling approach is used to validate the physical and geological reliability of
the ablative subduction mechanism during Alpine convergence in order to interpret the …