Alpenseminar by Benjamin Schmitz On the 27th of April we had a presentation on the active tectonics across the Alps by Benjamin Schmitz . To begin, we considered the tectonic setting across the Eastern Mediterranean by looking at the most recent Paleogeographic reconstruction of the Alpine orogeny. Recent Paleogeographic setting of the Alpine orogeny, after  Handy et al., 2015 The effect of the orogenesis linked to the indentation of the Adriatic Plate (brown on the above figure) into the European Plate (blue on the above figure) resulted in the formation of several faults and collisional zones. We may now consider: What tectonic effect remains? To better elaborate on this question, we may now consider the GPS velocities across Europe, Asia and North Africa, which is further associated to Nubia-Eurasia-Convergence: GPS-measured relative plate motions between the African and European/Eurasian Plates, after  Facenna et al., 2014 Important...