(A) Crustal temperature evolution of an inverted rift system based on thermo-mechanical modelling by Jourdon et al. (2019) (Model A). The location of the fourteen upper crustal basement particles selected for forward modelling of low-temperature thermochronology data is indicated. (B) Spatial and temporal evolution of the fourteen particles studied with regards to their final position within the orogenic system, indicating periods of burial/exhumation as well as maximum depths reached throughout entire particles’ rifting-to-collision history. Path colours correspond to the domain colour scheme defined in (A). Each particle (or path) number is labelled according to the position of the particle in the final orogenic prism from the lower, downgoing plate to the upper plate in Model A.