Abstract The European Variscan belt is a unique orogen that is covered by comprehensive
sets of seismic and potential field data from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Polish …

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 …

The European Variscan and Alpine mountain chains are collisional orogens, and are built
up of pre-Variscan “building blocks” which, in most cases, originated at the Gondwana …

The boundary between the Helvetic and the Penninic (= Briançonnais) Zones has long been
recognized as a major fault (“Penninic Front”) in the Western Alps. A narrow oceanic domain …

Late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic, Cadomian tectonic elements are widespread in the
southeastern Alpine–Mediterranean mountain belts, with discontinuous exposure extending …

Abstract The Helvetic nappes of Switzerland comprise a continuous zone of very low-grade
metamorphism of up to 15 km width. In general, metamorphic grade increases within a …

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 …

The alpine structural evolution of the Mont Blanc, highest point of the Alps (4810 m), and of
the surrounding area has been reexamined. The Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles Rouges …

High Precision U-Pb zircon and monazite dating in the Aiguilles Rouges–Mont Blanc area
allowed discrimination of three short-lived bimodal magmatic pulses: the early 332 Ma Mg–K …

Lawsonite is important as a carrier of H2O in subduction zones and as a petrological tracer.
The trace-element content of lawsonite in mafic rocks has been used as a record of fluid …