[HTML][HTML] Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik, SM Schmid… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

Kinematics of the Western Africa-Eurasia plate boundary from focal mechanisms and GPS data

E Serpelloni, G Vannucci, S Pondrelli… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Western Mediterranean displays a complex pattern of crustal deformation
distributed along tectonically active belts developed in the framework of slow oblique plate …

Neotectonic rotations in the Calabrian Arc; implications for a Pliocene-Recent geodynamic scenario for the Central Mediterranean

JP Van Dijk, PJJ Scheepers - Earth-Science Reviews, 1995 - Elsevier
Recently, new data have been presented which imply that major block rotations took place
in the Central Mediterranean during the Pleistocene, between 1.0 and 0.7 Ma. Kinematic …

Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

A Festa, GA Pini, Y Dilek… - International Geology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mélanges represent a significant component of collisional and accretionary orogenic belts
and occur widely around the world. Since its first introduction and use, the term has evolved …

Paleogeography and structure of the central Mediterranean: Sicily and its offshore area

R Catalano, P Di Stefano, A Sulli, FP Vitale - Tectonophysics, 1996 - Elsevier
The geology of the mainland and offshore of Sicily is illustrated by a few geologic sections
and seismic profiles across the late Cenozoic orogenic belt of central and western Sicily and …

[PDF][PDF] The Gelasian Stage (Upper Pliocene): A new unit of the global standard chronostratigraphic scale

D Rio, R Sprovieri, D Castradori… - Episodes …, 1998 - indianjournalofcomputerscience …
This short report announces the formal ratification of the Gelasian Stage as the uppermost
subdivision of the Pliocene Series, which is now subdivided into three stages (Lower …

Malta Escarpment fault zone offshore eastern Sicily: Pliocene‐Quaternary tectonic evolution based on new multichannel seismic data

A Argnani, C Bonazzi - Tectonics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The Malta Escarpment represents the dominant morphological feature offshore eastern
Sicily, linking the deep Ionian basin to the east with the Hyblean carbonate platform to the …

Structural styles and regional tectonic setting of the “Gela Nappe” and frontal part of the Maghrebian thrust belt in Sicily

WH Lickorish, M Grasso, RWH Butler, A Argnani… - …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The Gela Nappe of south central Sicily provides an example of a curved segment of an
orogenic front that can be examined both onshore and offshore for deformational style and …

An atlas of Mediterranean seismicity

G Vannucci, S Pondrelli, A Argnani, A Morelli… - 2004 - cris.unibo.it
The CD-ROM as well as the web pages contain an extensive collection of maps made by
GMT (Wessel and Smith, 1991) reporting the seismicity of the Africa-Eurasia margin from the …

Active thrusting as a possible seismogenic source in Sicily (Southern Italy): Some insights from integrated structural–kinematic and seismological data

G Lavecchia, F Ferrarini, R de Nardis, F Visini… - Tectonophysics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new seismogenic interpretation of mainland and central-southern
Sicily, based on an integrated structural–kinematic–seismological approach. Through …