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 …

Magma-poor rifted margins are being increasingly recognized in present-day Atlantic-type
systems. However, findings of fossil areas floored by exhumed mantle or hyper-extended …

Abstract The Western Mediterranean Sea is explained as a marginal basin, generated by a
N-NW subduction of the African—Apulian plates beneath the European plate. Following an …

Primary and pseudosecondary fluid inclusions occur in oscillatory-and sector-zoned
omphacite in eclogitic veins from the Monviso ophiolitic complex in the Western Alps. The …

The history of continental breakup and oceanic spreading of the Alpine Tethys is defined by
a revision of isotopic and biochronologic ages of 65 stratigraphic sections located in the …

Major discoveries in metamorphic petrology, as well as other geological disciplines, have
been made in the Alps. The regional distribution of Late Cretaceous–Tertiary metamorphic …

Fragments of subducted slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere are exposed continuously in
the Liguro-Piemont domain of the Western Alps. By combining new and literature …

Systematic differences in mineral composition of mantle peridotites are observed in
ophiolites and peridotitic bodies from the Alpine Tethys, the Pyrenean domain, the Dinarides …

Abstract The Alps/Apennines system, as well as many collisional orogens through the world,
shows a finite deformation produced during a long geological history which involves …

Spinel and plagioclase peridotites from the Mt. Maggiore (Corsica, France) ophiolitic massif
record a composite asthenosphere–lithosphere history of partial melting and subsequent …