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Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-619-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-619-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
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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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I concur with the AE's assessment that this paper presents valuable new models on the Permo-Triassic evolution of the Alps.
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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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