Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-619-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-619-2025
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10 Jul 2025
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Evidence for multi-rifting in the Variscan–Alpine cycle transition: insights from the European western Southern Alps

Emanuele Scaramuzzo, Franz A. Livio, Maria Giuditta Fellin, and Colin Maden

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1135', H. Seebeck, 04 Jun 2024
    • AC3: 'Reply on CC1', Maria Giuditta Fellin, 07 Oct 2024
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1135', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jul 2024
    • CC2: 'Reply on RC1', Franz Livio, 12 Jul 2024
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Maria Giuditta Fellin, 07 Oct 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1135', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Sep 2024
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Maria Giuditta Fellin, 07 Oct 2024

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Maria Giuditta Fellin on behalf of the Authors (19 Nov 2024)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
EF by Anna Glados (20 Nov 2024)  Supplement 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Jan 2025) by Federico Rossetti
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (22 Jan 2025)
RR by Chris Morley (06 Feb 2025)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Feb 2025) by Virginia Toy
AR by Maria Giuditta Fellin on behalf of the Authors (17 Feb 2025)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
EF by Polina Shvedko (17 Feb 2025)  Supplement 
ED: Publish as is (23 Mar 2025) by Florian Fusseis
ED: Publish as is (16 Apr 2025) by Florian Fusseis (Executive editor)
AR by Maria Giuditta Fellin on behalf of the Authors (17 Apr 2025)
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Executive editor
I concur with the AE's assessment that this paper presents valuable new models on the Permo-Triassic evolution of the Alps.
Short summary

We address the transition between the Paleozoic Variscan and Alpine Mesozoic–Cenozoic cycles using tectono-stratigraphy and thermochronology. This transition unfolds through a multi-phase rifting history. An initial rifting stage occurred in the early Permian, followed in the early–middle Permian by a phase of transcurrent tectonics. This was succeeded by a period of erosion/non-deposition in the middle Permian. Crustal stretching in the Middle Triassic marked the onset of the Alpine cycle.

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