The non-cylindrical character of the Variscan Belt is established via a description of its most
salient geological characteristics and correlations among the main and relatively minor …

The Alps are amongst the best subduction archives in the world, with abundant blueschists
and eclogites preserving fragments of mantle, gabbros, thinned continental margin and …

Assessing the size of a former ocean of which only remnants are found in mountain belts is
challenging but crucial to understanding subduction and exhumation processes. Here we …

Abstract The West European collisional Alpine belts are the result of the inversion, initiated
in the middle Cretaceous, of the complex western Neotethys and the Atlantic continental rift …

Abstract This paper presents Late Devonian (Frasnian–Famennian) global and regional
paleogeographic maps displaying present day coastlines, tectonic elements' boundaries …

The existence of pieces of the Variscan belt in the Alpine basement has been acknowledged
for a long time but the correlation of these massifs to the litho-tectonic domains established …

Mafic eclogites are found in many orogens as lenses embedded in quartzofeldspathic
migmatites. These high‐pressure relics are interpreted either as remnants of ancient sutures …

In this paper, we combined new field geological, structural, paleo-temperature and
subsurface data together with deep geophysical data to build a new 210 km-long crustal …

Here we describe the structure, the high-pressure, low-temperature (HP-LT) metamorphism
and tectonic evolution of the Briançonnais distal margin units from the south Western Alps …

Despite the Mediterranean sector of the Variscan Belt being fragmented and reworked
during Alpine orogenesis, evidence for the activity of a right‐lateral strike‐slip shear zone …