title: Paleo- and Neo-Tethyan subducted slabs below the Eastern Mediterranean region
abstract: The late Paleozoic to recent Alpine-Himalayan orogen contains the geological remnants of subducted lithosphere of the Paleotethys and Neotethys oceans and of microcontinents within these. This orogenic belt is segmented by abrupt along-strike changes that according to plate reconstructions coincide with paleo-transform faults across which oceanic opening and subduction histories changed. Here, we test whether seismic tomography identifying these segments in the mantle below the Tethyan realm in 