Structural architecture of the Western Alpine Ophiolites, and the Jurassic seafloor spreading tectonics of the Alpine Tethys

The role of structural inheritance in continental break-up and exhumation of Alpine Tethyan mantle (Canavese Zone, Western Alps)

(2019) Andrea Festa et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Birth and death of oceanic basins: geodynamic processes from rifting to continental collision in Mediterranean and circum-Mediterranean orogens

(2018) G. CAPPONI et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Pervasive silicification and hanging wall overplating along the 13°20′N oceanic detachment fault (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)

(2017) D. Bonnemains et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Tectonic structure, evolution, and the nature of oceanic core complexes and their detachment fault zones (13°20′N and 13°30′N, Mid Atlantic Ridge)

(2017) J. Escartín et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Dating of ultramafic rocks from the Western Alps ophiolites discloses Late Cretaceous subduction ages in the Zermatt-Saas Zone

(2017) GISELLA REBAY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Role of Late Jurassic intra-oceanic structural inheritance in the Alpine tectonic evolution of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

(2017) GIANNI BALESTRO et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Petrologic and stable isotopic studies of a fossil hydrothermal system in ultramafic environment (Chenaillet ophicalcites, Western Alps, France): Processes of carbonate cementation

(2017) Romain Lafay et al.   LITHOS

A Revised Subduction Inception Model to Explain the Late Cretaceous, Double-Vergent Orogen in the Precollisional Western Tethys: Evidence From the Northern Apennines

(2017) Michele Marroni et al.   TECTONICS

Time-progressive mantle-melt evolution and magma production in a Tethyan marginal sea: A case study of the Albanide-Hellenide ophiolites

(2017) Emilio Saccani et al.   Lithosphere

Record of Jurassic mass transport processes through the orogenic cycle: Understanding chaotic rock units in the high-pressure Zermatt-Saas ophiolite (Western Alps)

(2017) Paola Tartarotti et al.   Lithosphere

Origin and significance of olistostromes in the evolution of orogenic belts: A global synthesis

(2016) Andrea Festa et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

U–Pb zircon geochronology of the Ligurian ophiolites (Northern Apennine, Italy): Implications for continental breakup to slow seafloor spreading

(2016) Riccardo Tribuzio et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Discussion on “Coesite-bearing eclogite breccia: implication for coseismic ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and the rate of the process” by Yang et al. (Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 2014a, 167: 1013)

(2015) Shaocheng Ji   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Fossil oceanic core complexes recognized in the blueschist metaophiolites of Western Alps and Corsica

(2015) Yves Lagabrielle et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Pre-Alpine Extensional Tectonics of a Peridotite-Localized Oceanic Core Complex in the Late Jurassic, High-Pressure Monviso ophiolite (Western Alps)

(2015) Gianni Balestro   EPISODES

A Jurassic oceanic core complex in the high-pressure Monviso ophiolite (western Alps, NW Italy)

(2015) Andrea Festa et al.   Lithosphere

Distribution of large-scale detachment faults on mid-ocean ridges in relation to spreading rates

(2014) Zhiteng Yu et al.   ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA

The Ligurian Tethys: Mantle processes and geodynamics

(2014) Giovanni B. Piccardo et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ophiolites and Their Origins

(2014) Y. Dilek et al.   Elements

Records of Ocean Growth and Destruction in the Oman-UAE Ophiolite

(2014) K. M. Goodenough et al.   Elements

Sulfur isotope evolution in sulfide ores from Western Alps: Assessing the influence of subduction-related metamorphism

(2014) Fabio Giacometti et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Tectonic significance of different block-in-matrix structures in exhumed convergent plate margins: examples from oceanic and continental HP rocks in Inner Western Alps (northwest Italy)

(2014) Gianni Balestro et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Geological map of the upper Pellice Valley (Italian Western Alps)

(2014) Gianni Balestro et al.   Journal of Maps

The blueschist–eclogite transition in the Alpine chain: P–T paths and the role of slow-spreading extensional structures in the evolution of HP–LT mountain belts

(2014) A. Vitale Brovarone et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonostratigraphy of the northern Monviso Meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

(2014) Gianni Balestro et al.   Italian Journal of Geosciences

High-pressure serpentinites, a trap-and-release system controlled by metamorphic conditions: Example from the Piedmont zone of the western Alps

(2013) Romain Lafay et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The Alps 1: A working geodynamic model for burial and exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure rocks in Alpine-type orogens

(2013) Jared P. Butler et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Kinematics of Jurassic ultra-slow spreading in the Piemonte Ligurian ocean

(2013) Reinoud L.M. Vissers et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geological map of the Monviso massif (Western Alps)

(2013) Gianni Balestro et al.   Journal of Maps

New isotopic constraints on age and magma genesis of an embryonic oceanic crust: The Chenaillet Ophiolite in the Western Alps

(2013) Xian-Hua Li et al.   LITHOS

Fault kinematics in supradetachment basin formation, Menderes core complex of western Turkey

(2013) Zeynep Oner et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Three steps of serpentinization in an eclogitized oceanic serpentinization front (Lanzo Massif - Western Alps)

(2012) B. DEBRET et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Pressure–temperature estimates of the lizardite/antigorite transition in high pressure serpentinites

(2012) Stéphane Schwartz et al.   LITHOS

Jadeitite from the Monviso meta-ophiolite, western Alps: occurrence and genesis

(2011) Roberto Compagnoni et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Oceanic core complex development at the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Spreading Center

(2011) Nicholas W. Hayman et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

(2011) Y. Dilek et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Eclogitization of the Monviso ophiolite (W. Alps) and implications on subduction dynamics

(2011) S. ANGIBOUST et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological–geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps

(2010) Mark R. Handy et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Alpine peridotites from the Ligurian Tethys: an updated critical review

(2010) Giovanni B. Piccardo et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Prograde P–T Evolution of a Lawsonite Eclogite from the Monviso Meta-ophiolite (Western Alps): Dehydration and Redox Reactions during Subduction of Oceanic FeTi-oxide Gabbro

(2010) Chiara Groppo et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

The Chenaillet Ophiolite in the French/Italian Alps: An ancient analogue for an Oceanic Core Complex?

(2010) Gianreto Manatschal et al.   LITHOS

Life cycle of oceanic core complexes

(2009) C.J. MacLeod et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Troodos ophiolitic complex probably formed in a subduction initiation, slab edge setting

(2009) J.A. Pearce et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Oceanic Core Complex Development in Modern and Ancient Oceanic Lithosphere: Gabbro‐Localized versus Peridotite‐Localized Detachment Models

(2009) Elena A. Miranda et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Island arc tholeiite to boninitic melt evolution of the Cretaceous Kizildag (Turkey) ophiolite: Model for multi-stage early arc–forearc magmatism in Tethyan subduction factories

(2009) Yildirim Dilek et al.   LITHOS

Structure and geochemistry of Tethyan ophiolites and their petrogenesis in subduction rollback systems

(2009) Yildirim Dilek et al.   LITHOS

Evolution of the lithospheric mantle in an extensional setting: Insights from ophiolitic peridotites

(2009) Giovanni B. Piccardo et al.   Lithosphere

The final rifting evolution at deep magma-poor passive margins from Iberia-Newfoundland: a new point of view

(2008) Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Central role of detachment faults in accretion of slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere

(2008) J. Escartín et al.   NATURE

A type sequence across an ancient magma-poor ocean–continent transition: the example of the western Alpine Tethys ophiolites

(2008) Gianreto Manatschal et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS