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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Evidence for Variscan extension in the Pyrenees is summarized and used with other
geological and geochronological data to reconstruct the Variscan extensional geometry and …

The Erro-Tobbio lherzolite in the ophiolitic Voltri Massif of northwestern Italy includes several
thrusted fragments of lithospheric mantle which were first exhumed to the ocean floor …

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 geological record of the western and northern Mediterranean region (Apennines, Alps,
Carpathians) contains relics of an ocean basin of Jurassic age known as the Piemonte–…