Geological explorations in the Italian-French cross-border areas (Western Alps) from 19th to early 20th century

Pietro Mosca¹ & Luca Barale^1
1National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, Via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino (Italy).
Corresponding author e-mail: pietro.mosca@cnr.it

The aim of this contribution is to outline a few differences, interactions and complementarities of geological investigations in the Italian-French cross- border areas in the Western Alps during the 19th and early 20th centuries. With this objective, this contribution selects a few studies that have been references for further investigations, resulted fundamental for the present knowledge of the Western Alps.

Western Alps, geological explorations, geological mapping.