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Subduction and obduction processes in the Swiss Alps

Stampfli, G. M. ; Mosar, Jon ; Marquer, D. ; Marchant, R. ; Baudin, T. ; Borel, G.

In: Tectonophysics, 1998, vol. 296, p. 159

The significance of the Briançonnais domain in the Alpine orogen is reviewed in the light of data concerning its collision with the active Adriatic margin and the passive Helvetic margin. The Briançonnais which formerly belonged to the Iberian plate, was located on the northern margin of the Alpine Tethys (Liguro-Piémont ocean) since its opening in the early-Middle Jurassic. Together with the...