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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This Special Section of <jats:italic>Tectonics</jats:italic>, entitled “Orogenic Cycles: From Field Observations to Global Geodynamics,” has been compiled in commemoration of our friend and colleague Dr. Marco Beltrando, who tragically passed away in a mountain accident on 8 December 2015.</jats:p>