P. Agard, Transient, synobduction exhumation of Zagros blueschists inferred from P-T, deformations, time, and kinematic constraints: implications for Neotethyan wedge dynamics, J. geophys. Res, vol.111, p.11401, 2006.

P. Agard, P. Yamato, L. Jolivet, and E. Burov, Exhumation of oceanic blueschists and eclogites in subduction zones: timing and mechanisms, Earth Sci. Rev, 2009.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00379806

C. Allègre, Structure and evolution of the Himalaya-Tibet orogenic belt, Nature, vol.307, pp.17-22, 1984.

D. Arcay, M. P. Doin, E. Tric, R. Bousquet, and C. De-capitani, Overriding plate thinning in subduction zones: localized convection induced by slab dehydration, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, vol.7, 2006.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00407579

S. Baldwin, B. D. Monteleone, L. E. Webb, P. G. Fitzgerald, M. Grove et al., Pliocene eclogite exhumation at plate tectonics rates in eastern Papua New Guinea, Nature, vol.431, pp.263-267, 2004.

C. Beaumont, S. Ellis, and A. Pfiffner, Dynamics of sediment subduction-accretion at convergent margins: short-term modes, long term deformation, and tectonic implications, J. geophys. Res, vol.104, pp.17573-17601, 1999.

D. Boutelier, A. Chemenda, and C. Jorand, Continental subduction and exhumation of high-pressure rocks: insights from thermo-mechanical laboratory modelling, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.222, pp.209-216, 2004.

J. Breton, F. Béchennec, J. Le-métour, L. Moen-maurel, and P. Razin, Eoalpine (Cretaceous) evolution of the Oman Tethyan continental margin: insights from a structural field study in Jabal Akhdar, GeoArabia, vol.9, pp.1-18, 2004.

J. Brun and C. Faccenna, Exhumation of high-pressure rocks driven by slab rollback, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.272, 2008.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00334786

E. Burov, L. Jolivet, L. Le-pourhiet, and A. Poliakov, A thermomechanical model of exhumation of HP and UHP metamorphic rocks in Alpine mountain belts, Tectonophysics, vol.342, pp.113-136, 2001.

F. A. Capitanio, G. Morra, and S. Goes, Dynamic models of downgoing plate-buoyancy driven subduction: subduction motions and energy dissipation, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.262, pp.284-297, 2007.

A. Castro and T. V. Gerya, Magmatic implications of mantle wedge plumes: experimental study, Lithos, vol.103, pp.138-148, 2007.

A. I. Chemenda, M. Mattauer, and A. N. Bokun, Continental subduction and a mechanism for exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks: new modeling and field data from Oman, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.143, pp.173-182, 1996.

A. I. Chemenda, M. Mattauer, J. Malavieille, and A. N. Bokun, A mechanism for syn-collisional deep rock exhumation and associated normal faulting: results from physical modelling, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.132, pp.225-232, 1995.

C. Chopin, Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: tracing continental crust into the mantle, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.212, pp.1-14, 2003.

M. Cloos, Flow melanges: numerical modelling and geologic constraints on 299 their origin in the Franscican subduction complex, California, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am, vol.93, pp.330-345, 1982.

C. A. Currie and R. D. Hyndman, The thermal structure of subduction zone backarcs, J. geophys. Res, vol.111, 2006.

C. A. Currie, R. S. Huismans, and C. Beaumont, Thinning of continental backarc lithosphere by flow-induced gravitational instability, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.269, pp.436-447, 2008.

J. De-sigoyer, V. Chavagnac, J. Blichert-toft, I. Villa, B. Luais et al., Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites, Geology, vol.28, pp.487-490, 2000.

S. Duchêne, J. M. Lardeaux, and F. Albarède, Exhumation of eclogites: insights from depth-time path analysis, Tectonophysics, vol.280, pp.125-140, 1997.

P. C. England and T. J. Holland, Archimedes and the Tauern eclogites: the role of buoyancy in the preservation of exotic eclogite blocks, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.44, pp.287-294, 1979.

W. G. Ernst, Subduction, ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism, and regurgitation of bouyant crustal slices -implications for arcs and continental growth, Phys. Earth planet. Interiors, vol.127, pp.253-275, 2001.

W. G. Ernst, S. Maruyama, and S. Wallis, Buoyancy-driven, rapid exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphosed continental crust, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, vol.94, pp.9532-9537, 1997.

M. Faccenda, G. Minelli, and T. V. Gerya, Coupled and decoupled regimes of continental collision: numerical modeling, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.278, pp.337-349, 2009.

C. Faccenna, L. Jolivet, C. Piromallo, and A. Morelli, Subduction and the depth of convection in the Mediterranean mantle, J. geophys. Res, vol.108, issue.B2, p.2099, 2003.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00023512

F. Funiciello, C. Faccenna, D. Giardini, and K. Regenauer-lieb, Dynamics of retreating slabs: 2. Insights from threedimensional laboratory experiments, J. geophys. Res, vol.108, issue.B4, p.2207, 2003.

Z. Garfunkel, C. A. Anderson, and G. Schubert, Mantle circulation and the lateral migration of subducted slabs, J. geophys. Res, vol.91, pp.7205-7223, 1986.

D. Gebauer, H. P. Schertl, M. Brix, and W. Schreyer, 35 Ma old ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and evident for very rapid exhumation in the Dora Maira Massif, Lithos, vol.41, pp.5-24, 1997.

T. V. Gerya, B. Stöckert, and A. L. Perchuk, Exhumation of highpressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel: a numerical simulation, Tectonics, vol.21, issue.6, p.1056, 2002.

T. V. Gerya and B. Stoeckhert, Exhumation rates of high pressure metamorphic rocks in subduction channels: the effect of rheology, Geophys. Res. Lett, vol.29, issue.8, p.1261, 2002.

T. V. Gerya and D. A. Yuen, RayleighTaylor instabilities from hydration and melting propel ''cold plumes'' at subduction zones, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.212, pp.47-62, 2003.

W. Gorczyk, S. Guillot, T. V. Gerya, and K. Hattori, Asthenospheric upwelling, oceanic slab retreat and exhumation of UHP mantle rocks: insights from Greater Antilles, Geophys. Res. Lett, vol.34, p.21309, 2007.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00350430

S. Guillot, S. Schwartz, K. Hattori, A. Auzende, and J. Lardeaux, The Monviso ophiolitic Massif (Western Alps), a section through a serpentinite subduction channel, J. Virtual Explorer, p.16, 2004.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00103165

B. R. Hacker, T. B. Andersen, D. B. Root, L. Mehl, J. M. Mattinson et al., Exhumation of high-pressure rocks beneath the Solund Basin, Western Gneiss Region of Norway, J. Metamorph. Geol, vol.21, pp.613-629, 2003.

P. S. Hall and C. Kincaid, Diapiric flow at subduction zones: a recipe for rapid transport, Science, vol.292, pp.2472-2475, 2001.

M. R. Handy, L. Franz, F. Heller, B. Janott, and R. Zurbriggen, Multistage accretion and exhumation of the continental crust (Ivrea crustal section, Italy and Switzerland), vol.18, pp.1154-1177, 1999.

L. Jolivet, J. M. Daniel, C. Truffert, and B. Goffé, Exhumation of deep crustal metamorphic rocks and crustal extension in back-arc regions, Lithos, vol.33, pp.3-30, 1994.

J. Jolivet, C. Faccenna, B. Goffé, E. Burov, and P. Agard, Subduction tectonics and exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Mediterranean orogens, Am. J. Sci, vol.303, pp.353-409, 2003.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00022384

L. Jolivet, Subduction, convergence and the mode of backarc extension in the Mediterranean region, Bull. Soc. Géol. France, vol.179, pp.525-550, 2008.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00348054

S. Lallemand, A. Heuret, and D. Boutelier, On the relationships between slab dip, back-arc stress, upper plate absolute motion, and crustal nature in subduction zones, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, vol.6, p.9006, 2005.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01261567

J. G. Liou, T. Tsujimori, R. Y. Zhang, I. Katayama, and S. Maruyama, Global UHP metamorphism and continental subduction/collision: the Himalaya model, Int. Geol. Rev, vol.46, pp.1-27, 2004.

A. Malinverno and W. B. Ryan, Extension of the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of a migration driven by sinking lithosphere, Tectonics, vol.5, pp.227-245, 1986.

V. C. Manea, M. Manea, V. Kostoglodov, and G. Sewell, Thermomechanical model of the mantle wedge in Central Mexican subduction zone and a blob tracing approach for the magma transport, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter, vol.149, pp.165-186, 2005.

J. Martinod, F. Funiciello, C. Faccenna, S. Labanieh, and V. Regard, Dynamical effects of subducting ridges: insights from 3-D laboratory models, Geophys. J. Int, vol.163, pp.1137-1150, 2005.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00537033

S. Maruyama, J. G. Liou, and M. Terabayashi, Blueschists and eclogites of the world, and their exhumation, Int. Geol. Rev, vol.38, pp.458-594, 1996.

T. Parra, O. Vidal, and L. Jolivet, Relation between the intensity of defor mation and retrogression in blueschist metapelites of Tinos Island (Greece) evidenced by chlorite-mica local equilibria, Lithos, vol.63, pp.41-66, 2002.

C. Piromallo, T. W. Becker, F. Funiciello, and C. Faccenna, Threedimensional instantaneous mantle flow induced by subduction, Geophys. Res. Lett, vol.33, p.8304, 2006.

O. A. Pfiffner, S. Ellis, and C. Beaumont, Collision tectonics in the Swiss Alps: insight from geodynamic modeling, Tectonics, vol.19, pp.1065-1094, 2000.

J. P. Platt, Dynamics of orogenic wedges and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, vol.97, pp.1037-1053, 1986.

J. P. Platt, Exhumation of high-pressure rocks: a review of concept and processes, vol.5, pp.119-133, 1993.

U. Ring, M. T. Brandon, S. Willett, and G. S. Lister, Exhumation processes, Exhumation Processes: Normal faulting, ductile flow and erosion, pp.1-28, 1999.

G. Rosenbaum and G. S. Lister, The Western Alps from the Jurassic to Oligocene: spatio-temporal constraints and evolutionary reconstructions, Earth. Sci. Rev, vol.69, pp.281-306, 2005.

L. Royden, Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision, Tectonics, vol.12, pp.629-638, 1993.

L. Royden and L. Husson, Trench motion, slab geometry and viscous stresses in subduction systems, Geophys. J. Int, vol.167, pp.881-905, 2006.

L. Royden and L. Husson, Subduction with variations in slab buoyancy: models and application to the Banda and Apennine systems, in Subduction Zone Geodynamics, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 2009.

D. Rubatto and J. Hermann, Exhumation as fast as subduction? Geology, vol.29, pp.3-6, 2001.

T. Seno, Conditions for a crustal block to be sheared off from the subducted continental lithosphere: what is an essential factor to cause features associated with collision?, J. geophys. Res, vol.113, 2008.

R. L. Shreve and M. Cloos, Dynamics of sediment subduction, melange formation, and prism accretion, J. geophys. Res, vol.91, pp.10229-10245, 1986.

G. M. Stampfli, Tethyan oceans, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ, vol.173, pp.1-23, 2000.

D. R. Stegman, J. Freeman, W. P. Schellart, L. Moresi, and D. May, Influence of trench width on subduction hinge retreat rates in 3-D models of slab rollback, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, vol.7, p.3012, 2006.

S. N. Thomson, B. Stockhert, and M. R. Brix, Thermochronology of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks of Crete, Greece: implications for the speed of tectonic processes, Geology, vol.26, pp.259-262, 1998.

C. Warren, C. Beaumont, and R. A. Jamieson, Modelling tectonic styles and ultra-high pressure (UHP) rock exhumation during the transition L, 2008.

, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.267, pp.129-145

P. Yamato, P. Agard, E. Burov, L. Le-pourhiet, L. Jolivet et al., Burial and exhumation in a subduction wedge: mutual constraints from thermomechanical modeling and natural P-T-t data (Sch. Lustrés, W. Alps), J. geophys. Res, vol.112, p.7410, 2007.

P. Yamato, E. Burov, P. Agard, L. Le-pourhiet, and L. Jolivet, HP-UHP exhumation during slow continental subduction: self-consistent thermodynamically and thermomechanically coupled model with application to the Western Alps, Earth planet. Sci. Lett, vol.271, pp.63-74, 2008.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00425656

P. Yamato, L. Husson, J. Braun, C. Loiselet, and C. Thieulot, Influence of surrounding plates on 3D subduction dynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett, vol.36, p.7303, 2009.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00381763

E. O. Walsh and B. R. Hacker, The fate of subducted continental margins: two-stage exhumation of the high-pressure to ultrahigh-pressure Western Gneiss Region, J. Metamorphic Geol, vol.22, pp.671-687, 2004.

, Journal compilation C, vol.179, pp.1292-1300, 2009.