The Alpine-Mediterranean region is one of the world's most complex plate boundary systems where subduction, slab rollback, continental collision, back-arc extension, and lithospheric deformation coexist over relatively short spatial scales. Understanding the structure and dynamics of its lithosphere and upper mantle requires increasingly integrated geophysical observations and multidisciplinary interpretation.

Over the last decade, major observational initiatives such as AlpArray and AdriaArray, together with permanent seismic networks and complementary geophysical experiments, have substantially improved our ability to image the Mediterranean lithosphere and upper mantle at unprecedented resolution. At the same time, advances in seismic imaging, detection and location of seismic events, geodesy, gravity, magnetotellurics, field studies, tectonic reconstructions, petrology, mineral physics, and geodynamic modelling are providing new insights into the evolution and dynamics of this complex plate boundary system.

This session welcomes contributions that use integrated geophysical and geological observations and multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the structure, composition, evolution, and dynamics of the Alpine-Mediterranean lithosphere and mantle. Contributions addressing crustal architecture, lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions, slab geometry and evolution, mantle discontinuities, mantle flow, deformation processes, and links between deep Earth structure and surface tectonics are particularly welcome.