About this title - Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System
The Alps, Carpathians and Dinarides form a complex, highly curvedand strongly coupled orogenic system. Motions of the Europeanand Adriatic plates gave birth to a number of ‘oceans’and microplates that led to several distinct stages of collision.Although the Alps serve as a classical example of collisionalorogens, it becomes clearer that substantial questions on theirevolution can only be answered in the Carpathians and Dinarides.Our understanding of the geodynamic evolution of the Alpine-Dinaride-CarpathianSystem has substantially improved and will continue to develop;this is thanks to collaboration between eastern and westernEurope, but also due to the application of new methods and thelaunch of research initiatives. The largely field-based contributionsinvestigate the following subjects: pre-Alpine heritage andAlpine reactivation; Mesozoic palaeogeography and Alpine subductionand collision processes; extrusion tectonics from the EasternAlps to the Carpathians and the Pannonian Basin; orogen-paralleland orogen-perpendicular extension; record of orogeny in forelandbasins; tectonometamorphic evolution; and relations betweenthe Alps, Apennines and Corsica.
