Based on detailed field survey in area of the Alps and the Apennines, comes into being a systematic method on stratigraphic working and geological mapping in the orogenic belt. The plate tectonics promotes it to raise to the tentative level of theory and become a foundation of establishing geodynamic model in the middle of the 1970s.More recently, the advances of research on the orogenic structures, the developments of sequence stratigraphy, as well as the combination of the both result in a new-formed branch: tectonic sequence stratigraphy. It affords us valuable experience and new theoretical thoughts for work on the orogens in China.