| List of Figures | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface to the American Edition | |
| Preface to the Swiss Edition | |
| 1 | The Jura Mountains | 3 |
| 2 | The Swiss Midland | 17 |
| 3 | The Swiss Alps | 28 |
| 4 | Two Helvetic Unconformities | 41 |
| 5 | Flysch and Wildflysch | 52 |
| 6 | The Prealps | 67 |
| 7 | The Penninic Core Nappes | 81 |
| 8 | The Bundnerschiefer | 96 |
| 9 | The Ophiolite Melanges | 107 |
| 10 | A History of the Pennine Deformation | 116 |
| 11 | The Austroalpine Nappes | 127 |
| 12 | Geological Evolution of Switzerland | 139 |
| 13 | The Tectonic Facies Concept | 156 |
| 14 | Global Tectonic Facies | 168 |
| 15 | A Tectonic Facies Map of China | 192 |
| 16 | Theoretical Geology | 206 |
| Postscript | 224 |
| References | 229 |
| Index | 245 |
