What drives Alpine Tethys opening? Clues from the review of geological data and model predictions

The Variscan evolution in the basement cobbles of the Permian Ponteranica Formation by microstructural and petrologic analysis

(2018) Davide Zanoni et al.   Italian Journal of Geosciences

2-D numerical study of hydrated wedge dynamics from subduction to post-collisional phases

(2017) Alessandro Regorda et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Ductile–brittle deformation effects on crystal-chemistry and U–Pb ages of magmatic and metasomatic zircons from a dyke of the Finero Mafic Complex (Ivrea–Verbano Zone, Italian Alps)

(2017) Antonio Langone et al.   LITHOS

The Grand St Bernard-Briançonnais Nappe System and the Paleozoic Inheritance of the Western Alps Unraveled by Zircon U-Pb Dating

(2017) M. A. Bergomi et al.   TECTONICS

Thermo-mechanical numerical model of the transition from continental rifting to oceanic spreading: the case study of the Alpine Tethys

(2016) ANNA MARIA MAROTTA et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Wilson cycle passive margins: Control of orogenic inheritance on continental breakup

(2016) Kenni D. Petersen et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mapping the nature of mantle domains in Western and Central Europe based on clinopyroxene and spinel chemistry: Evidence for mantle modification during an extensional cycle

(2016) S. Picazo et al.   LITHOS

Origin and age of zircon-bearing chromitite layers from the Finero phlogopite peridotite (Ivrea–Verbano Zone, Western Alps) and geodynamic consequences

(2016) Alberto Zanetti et al.   LITHOS

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

Ancient depletion and mantle heterogeneity: Revisiting the Permian-Jurassic paradox of Alpine peridotites

(2015) Anders McCarthy et al.   GEOLOGY

The role of inheritance in structuring hyperextended rift systems: Some considerations based on observations and numerical modeling

(2015) Gianreto Manatschal et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Age of Alpine Corsica ophiolites revisited: Insights from in situ zircon U–Pb age and O–Hf isotopes

(2015) Xian-Hua Li et al.   LITHOS

Paleolatitudes of Late Triassic radiolarian cherts from Argolis, Greece: Insights on the paleogeography of the western Tethys

(2015) Giovanni Muttoni et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Megacrystic zircon with planar fractures in miaskite-type nepheline pegmatites formed at high pressures in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, Switzerland)

(2014) U. Schaltegger et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Deciphering orogeny: a metamorphic perspective. Examples from European Alpine and Variscan belts: Part I: Alpine metamorphism in the western Alps. A review

(2014) J.-M. Lardeaux   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Duration of igneous activity in the Sesia Magmatic System and implications for high-temperature metamorphism in the Ivrea–Verbano deep crust

(2014) Urs S. Klötzli et al.   LITHOS

Sm–Nd geochronology of the Erro-Tobbio gabbros (Ligurian Alps, Italy): Insights into the evolution of the Alpine Tethys

(2014) Elisabetta Rampone et al.   LITHOS

The transition between the two major Permian tectono-stratigraphic cycles in the central Southern Alps: results from facies analysis and U/Pb geochronology

(2013) Nicola Gretter et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

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

Oblique subduction modelling indicates along-trench tectonic transport of sediments

(2013) Cristina Malatesta et al.   Nature Communications

Alps vs. Apennines: The paradigm of a tectonically asymmetric Earth

(2012) Eugenio Carminati et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

U-Pb zircon geochronological and petrographic constraints on late to post-collisional Variscan magmatism and metamorphism in the Ligurian Alps, Italy

(2012) Matteo Maino et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Pre-Mesozoic Alpine basements—Their place in the European Paleozoic framework

(2012) Jürgen F. von Raumer et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Integration of natural data within a numerical model of ablative subduction: a possible interpretation for the Alpine dynamics of the Austroalpine crust

(2012) M. RODA et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Necking of continental crust in magma-poor rifted margins: Evidence from the fossil Alpine Tethys margins

(2012) G. Mohn et al.   TECTONICS

The exhumation of high pressure ophiolites (Voltri Massif, Western Alps): Insights from structural and petrologic data on metagabbro bodies

(2011) C. Malatesta et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Thermal and tectonic evolution of the southern Alps (northern Italy) rifting: Coupled organic matter maturity analysis and thermokinematic modeling

(2010) Eugenio Carminati et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

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

Numerical simulations of an ocean-continent convergent system: Influence of subduction geometry and mantle wedge hydration on crustal recycling

(2010) M. Roda et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Structure and PT estimates across late-collisional plutons: constraints on the exhumation of western Alpine continental HP units

(2010) Davide Zanoni et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Analysis of natural tectonic systems coupled with numerical modelling of the polycyclic continental lithosphere of the Alps

(2010) Maria Iole Spalla et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Variscan lamprophyres in the Lower Penninic domain (Central Alps): age and tectonic significance

(2009) D. Bussien et al.   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Magmatic plumbing of a large Permian caldera exposed to a depth of 25 km

(2009) J.E. Quick et al.   GEOLOGY

Plagioclase Peridotites in Ocean-Continent Transitions: Refertilized Mantle Domains Generated by Melt Stagnation in the Shallow Mantle Lithosphere

(2009) O. Muntener et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

U–Pb zircon ages for post-Variscan volcanism in the Ligurian Alps(Northern Italy)

(2009) Giorgio Dallagiovanna et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

High- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Past results and future prospects

(2008) W.G. Ernst et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Stratigraphic evolution of the Triassic-Jurassic succession in the Western Southern Alps (Italy): the record of the two-stage rifting on the distal passive margin of Adria

(2008) Fabrizio Berra et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Permian metamorphic event in the Alps

(2008) Ralf Schuster et al.   GEOLOGY

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