CONTENTS

Omar Bartoli, Antonio Acosta-Vigil and Bernardo Cesare

High-temperature metamorphism and crustal melting: working with melt inclusions

Igor M. Villa

39Ar-40Ar geochronology of mono- and polymetamorphic basements

Antonio Langone and Massimo Tiepolo

U-Th-Pb “multi-phase” approach to the study of crystalline basement: application to the northernmost sector of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone (Alps)

Gabriele Cruciani, Chiara Montomoli, Rodolfo Carosi, Marcello Franceschelli and Mariano Puxeddu

Continental collision from two perspectives: a review of Variscan metamorphism and deformation in northern Sardinia

Rosolino Cirrincione, Eugenio Fazio, Patrizia Fiannacca, Gaetano Ortolano, Antonino Pezzino and Rosalda Punturo

The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen, a composite terrane in Central Mediterranean; its overall architecture and geodynamic significance for a pre-Alpine scenario around the Tethyan basin

Gisella Rebay, Maria Pia Riccardi and Maria Iole Spalla

Fluid rock interactions as recorded by Cl-rich amphiboles from continental and oceanic crust of italian orogenic belts

Guido Gosso, Gisella Rebay, Manuel Roda, Maria Iole Spalla, Massimo Tarallo, Davide Zanoni and Michele Zucali

Taking advantage of petrostructural heterogeneities in subduction-collisional orogens, and effect on the scale of analysis