Guest Editors:
Alexis Plunder (BRGM)
Gerit Griesmeier (Geosphere Austria)
Jean-Luc Epard (University of Lausanne)
Paola Manzotti (Stockholm University)

Key words: Alpine region, geological cartography, guides.

The Alps and neighboring regions offer exceptional natural laboratories to study mountain building processes, including the evolution of plate margins from rifting to subduction, inheritance from previous orogenic cycles, ophiolite emplacement, collision and (ultra)high-pressure rock exhumation, upper-plate and foreland basin evolution, and interference between interacting orogenic systems. Within this framework, fundamental pinpoints are provided by accurate field geology observations.
For this special issue of Geological Field Trips and Maps, we are looking for guides and maps summarizing recent field geology observations in the Alps, their foreland areas and the neighboring mountain belts from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians, shedding new light on the complex evolution of the greater Alpine region from different disciplinary perspectives (e.g., stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, structural geology, volcanology, petrology, metamorphic geology, geomorphology and tectonics).

Deadline for submission: March 2026

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