The ENE-WSW-trending Møre-Trøndelag Fault Complex (MTFC) in Central Norway is a 10-50 km-wide, steeply dipping reactivated fault zone. Onshore, it transects Devonian sedimentary rocks and a series of E to SE transported metamorphic nappes, which were emplaced during the Scandian (Silurian-Devonian) Orogeny. Offshore, the MTFC defines the southern margin of the Møre Basin and the northern margin of the Viking Graben, meaning that the fault complex played a major role in controlling the architecture of these Mesozoic basins. Onshore, the MTFC has had a prolonged and heterogeneous kinematic history. The complex comprises two major fault strands: the Hitra-Snåsa Fault (HSF) and the Verran Fault (VF). These two faults seem to have broadly initiated as part of a single system of sinistral ductile shear zones during the early Devonian (c. 410 Ma). Sinistral transtensional reactivation (Permo-Carboniferous; 290 Ma) of the ENE-WSW-trending HSF and VF led to the development of cataclasites and pseudotachylites together with the formation of N-S-trending faults establishing the present-day brittle fault geometry of the MTFC. Later phases of Mesozoic reactivation focused along the Verran Fault Zone (VFZ) and N-S-linking structures were likely related to mid-late Jurassic/early Cretaceous rifting and late Cretaceous/early Cenozoic opening of the North Atlantic. Thematic collection: This article is part of the Caledonian Wilson cycle collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/topic/collections/the-caledonian-wilson-cycle Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6390518