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Two main groups of geological models on paleogeographic and kinematic Alpine evolution of the central-western Mediterranean area presented in the last decades were compared. One interpretation provides for a single Mesozoic Tethyan Ocean, located between Africa and Europe and from which both Eo-Alpine and Neo-Alpine chains derived during Cretaceous to Miocene time span. Another interpretation considers the presence of at least two Tethyan oceanic branches separated by one or more microplates. Starting from these different approaches, progressive innovations and improvements to the different interpretative models were proposed over time and sometimes the resulting interpretations do not integrate easily. The proposed discussion tries to update the state of knowledge.
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Guerrera, F., Martín-Martín, M., Tramontana, M. (2022). Evolutionary Geological Models of the Central-Western Peri-Mediterranean Chains. In: Meghraoui, M., et al. Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences. CAJG 2019. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_123
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