The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

Following on paleomagnetic studies in the sixties showing ~35 counterclockwise rotation of
Iberia during the Mesozoic, two classes of scenarios have been proposed for the motion …

With the aim to unravel first-order motions associated with the Alpine collisional history of the
Pyrenees in SW Europe, we perform a plate-kinematic analysis of Iberia motion since the …

Several features of the Alboran Sea suggest that it may have been a high collisional ridge in
Paleogene time that subsequently underwent extensional-collapse, driving radial thrusting …

A distinct class of structures can form as a result of extension along a plane of anisotropy (foliation).
The effect of the foliation is to decrease the ductility of the material in this orientation …

The western Mediterranean recorded subduction rollback, slab segmentation and separation.
Here we address the questions of what caused Oligocene rollback initiation, and how its …

The Betic Cordillera of southern Spain provides a clear example of a collisional orogen that
has undergone large‐scale extensional collapse while convergent motion of the bounding …

In a number of recent papers, the theory has been postulated that porphyroblasts as a rule
do not rotate with respect to geographical coordinates, and can be used to determine the …

The Turon de Técouère peridotite, in the North Pyrenean Zone, is composed of protomylonites
grading to a 20–40 m wide zone of ultramylonites within a 0.6 km diameter exposure. The …

In Central and Western Anatolia two continent‐derived massifs simultaneously underthrusted
an oceanic lithosphere in the Cretaceous and ended up with very contrasting metamorphic …