Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Auer, A Billi… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean offers a unique opportunity to study the driving forces of tectonic
deformation within a complex mobile belt. Lithospheric dynamics are affected by slab …

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 …

[图书][B] Evolution of the southern Tyrrhenian slab tear and active tectonics along the western edge of the Tyrrhenian subducted slab

A Argnani - 2009 - lyellcollection.org
The evolution of the southern Tyrrhenian subduction has been possibly controlled by distinct
episodes of slab break-off as indicated by a critical review of the geological literature and by …

The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present

S Pondrelli, S Salimbeni, G Ekström, A Morelli… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The INGV-Harvard European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor (RCMT)
Catalog collects solutions routinely computed since 1997 for earthquakes with moderate …

A seismic source zone model for the seismic hazard assessment of the Italian territory

C Meletti, F Galadini, G Valensise, M Stucchi, R Basili… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
We designed a new seismic source model for Italy to be used as an input for country-wide
probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) in the frame of the compilation of a new …

Submarine landslides of the Mediterranean Sea: Trigger mechanisms, dynamics, and frequency‐magnitude distribution

R Urgeles, A Camerlenghi - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine landslides are ubiquitous along Mediterranean continental margins. With the aim
of understanding mass‐wasting processes and related hazard at the scale of a large marine …

Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Jolivet, M Keskin - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle East region represents a key site within the Tethyan domain where
continental break-up, collision, backarc extension and escape tectonics are kinematically …

Structural architecture of the central Apennines: Interpretation of the CROP 11 seismic profile from the Adriatic coast to the orographic divide

E Patacca, P Scandone, E Di Luzio, GP Cavinato… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We present an interpretation of the eastern half portion of the CROP 11 line, a deep
reflection seismic profile 265 km long that cuts across the central Apennines from the …

Active faulting and transpression tectonics along the plate boundary in North Africa

M Meghraoui, S Pondrelli - Annals of Geophysics, 2012 - hal.science
We present a synthesis of the active tectonics of the northern Atlas Mountains, and suggest a
kinematic model of transpression and block rotation that illustrates the mechanics of this …

Kinematics, seismotectonics and seismic potential of the eastern sector of the European Alps from GPS and seismic deformation data

E Serpelloni, G Vannucci, L Anderlini, RA Bennett - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a first synoptic view of the seismotectonics and kinematics of the eastern sector
of the European Alps using geodetic and seismological data. The study area marks the …