We introduce arrangements of rational sections over curves. They generalize line arrangements on P 2 . Each arrangement of d sections defines a single curve in P d−2 through the Kapranov's construction of M 0,d+1 . We show a one-to-one correspondence between arrangements of d sections and irreducible curves in M 0,d+1 , giving also correspondences for two distinguished subclasses: transversal and simple crossing. Then, we associate to each arrangement A (and so to each irreducible curve in M 0,d+1 ) several families of nonsingular projective surfaces X of general type with Chern numbers asymptotically proportional to various log Chern numbers defined by A. For example, for the main families and over C, any such X is of positive index and π 1 (X) ≃ π 1 (A), where A is the normalization of A. In this way, any rational curve in M 0,d+1 produces simply connected surfaces with 2 < c 2 1 c 2 arbitrarily close to the Miyaoka-Yau bound 3? Hence, at least when A is a rational curve, it is important for us to know about sharp upper bounds forc 2 1 (A) c 2 (A) (also for A p∆ , see Remark 7.3). So far, we only know that this bound is strictly smaller than 3 (Corollaries 6.2 and 6.4). On the other hand, in positive characteristic, we use our method to producé etale simply connected nonsingular projective surfaces of general type which violate any sort of Miyaoka-Yau inequality for any given characteristic (Example 1.4, Remark 6.5, Example 7.2).2 1 these are the type of singularities for arrangements in [22]. 6 7 1. We have V 0 (P 1 , . . . , P d ) ∼ = M 0,d . 9