List of Figures

1. Regional Map

2. Examples of earlier reconstructions

3. Simplified cross section

4. Time-space diagram

5. Alboran Sea and the Rif-Betic cordillera

6. Corsica and Sardinia

7. Italian Peninsula and Sicily

8. Rotations inferred from palaeomagnetic studies

9. Distribution of volcanic rocks

10. Computer animation

11. Oligocene reconstruction

12. Late Oligocene reconstruction

13. Early Burdigalian reconstruction

14. Late Burdigalian reconstruction

15. Middle Miocene reconstruction

16. Tortonian reconstruction

17. Messinian reconstruction

18. Late Pliocene reconstruction