• Foreword: Stefan M. Schmid.
• Introduction: analysing orogeny—the Alpine approach, S Siegesmund, B Fügenschuh & N Froitzheim
• Geodynamic evolution of an Alpine terrane—the Austroalpine basement to the south of the Tauern Window as a part of the Adriatic Plate (eastern Alps), B Schulz, A Steenken & S Siegesmund
• Exhumation and deformation history of the lower crustal section of the Valstrona di Omegna in the Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, S Siegesmund, P Layer, I Dunkl, A Vollbrecht, A Steenken, K Wemmer & H Ahrendt
• Evolution of an Early Permian extensional detachment fault from synintrusive, mylonitic flow to brittle faulting (Grassi Detachment Fault, Orobic Anticline, southern Alps, Italy), N Froitzheim, J F Derks, J M Walter & D Sciunnach
• Post-Variscan to Early Alpine sedimentary basins in the Tauern Window (eastern Alps), P Veselá, B Lammerer, A Wetzel, F Söllner & A Gerdes
• The Meliata suture in the Carpathians: regional significance and implications for the evolution of high-pressure wedges within collisional orogens, R D Dallmeyer, F Neubauer & H Fritz
• Subduction-related metamorphism in the Alps: review of isotopic ages based on petrology and their geodynamic consequences, A Berger & R Bousquet
• Tectonic evolution of the northwestern Internal Dinarides as constrained by structures and rotation of Medvednica Mountains, North Croatia, B Tomljenović, L Csontos, E Márton & P Márton
• Tertiary cooling and exhumation history in the Maramures area (internal eastern Carpathians, northern Romania): thermochronology and structural data, H R Gröger, B Fügenschuh, M Tischler, S M Schmid & J P T Foeken
• The western termination of the SEMP Fault (eastern Alps) and its bearing on the exhumation of the Tauern Window, C L Rosenberg & S Schneider
• A crustal-scale cross-section through the Tauern Window (eastern Alps) from geophysical and geological data, B Lammerer, H Gebrande, E Lüschen & P Veselá
• Neotectonic faulting, uplift & seismicity in the central and western Swiss Alps, M Ustaszewski & O A Pfiffner
• On the role and importance of orogen-parallel and -perpendicular extension, transcurrent shearing, and backthrusting in the Monte Rosa nappe and the Southern Steep Belt of the Alps (Penninic zone, Switzerland and Italy), J Pleuger, T J Nagel, J M Walter, E Jansen & N Froitzheim
• Metamorphic evolution of a very low- to low-grade metamorphic core complex (Danubian window) in the South Carpathians, M Ciulavu, R Ferreiro Mählmann, S M Schmid, H Hofmann, A Seghedi & M Frey
• Tectonics and sedimentation during convergence of the ALCAPA and Tisza–Dacia continental blocks: the Pienide nappe emplacement and its foredeep (N. Romania), M Tischler, L Matenco, S Filipescu, H R Gröger, A Wetzel & B Fügenschuh
• Calcareous nannofossil age constraints on Miocene flysch sedimentation in the Outer Dinarides (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro), T Mikes, M Báldi-Beke, M Kázmér, I Dunkl & H Von Eynatten
• Tertiary subduction, collision and exhumation recorded in the Adula nappe, central Alps, T J Nagel
• Metamorphism of metasediments at the scale of an orogen: a key to the Tertiary geodynamic evolution of the Alps, R Bousquet, R Oberhänsli, B Goffé, M Wiederkehr, F Koller, S M Schmid, R Schuster, M Engi, A Berger & G Martinotti
• Northern Apennine–Corsica orogenic system: an updated overview, G Molli
• Index