The Western Alps, from Rift to Passive Margin to Orogenic Belt

1: From geosynclinal theory to plate tectonics in understanding folded belts. 2/3 The birth of the Alpine fold belt at the expense of the now vanished Tethyan Ocean and its continental margins. 4: The permanence of Hercynian heritage in Tethyan then Alpine structures. 5 et 6: The initiation of Tethyan rifting on the future European margin.  7: The evolution of Tethyan rifting on the future European margin and the transition to oceanic spreading.. 8: The Valais Ocean controversy and the change from Tethyan spreading to Alpin shortening. 9: The Tethyan margin in Corsica.  10: A brief summary of the Apulian margin in the Eastern Alps in Italy and in the Grisons of Switzerland.  11: Alpine ophiolites in the Western Alps. Reconstruction of the Tethyan oceanic crust. 12: Recapitulation et overview. 13: From extension to shortening ; inversion on the European Tethyan margin and th start of orogenesis in the Western and Central Alps. 14: The birth of the Western and Central Alps : subduction, obduction, collision. 15: the Alps - Neotectonics. 16: Summary, discussion. Interpretation of Alpine stratigraphic sections in terms of Sequence Stratigraphy.