As the archetype of mountain building in subduction zones, the Central Andes has
constituted an excellent example for investigating mountain-building processes for decades …

The kinematic evolution of the Pyrenees was largely controlled by structural and thermal
heterogeneities inherited from a precursor rift system, resulting in complex along-strike …

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

Defining the structural style of fold–thrust belts and understanding the controlling factors are
necessary steps towards prediction of their long-term and short-term dynamics, including …

Estimating shortening in collision belts is critical to reconstruct past plate motions. Balanced
cross‐section techniques are efficient in external domains but lack resolution in the …

Résumé New evolutionary models for the Pyrenean orogeny must consider feedbacks
between the Mid-Cretaceous hyperextension postulated recently and the Pyrenean …

The kinematics of the collision in Western Alps are investigated through five balanced cross
sections of the whole external domain from the Oisans to the Mont Blanc massif. These cross …

Structural style of fold and thrust belts depends among many other factors on the mechanical
properties of the deformed sedimentary pile and the existence of weak horizons such as salt …

In natural doubly vergent orogens, the relationship between the pro‐and retro‐wedges is, as
yet, poorly constrained. We present a detailed tectonostratigraphic study of the retro‐wedge …

One of the most common observation in Mediterranean areas is the migration of
contractional deformation and associated slabs through time toward external orogenic …