The Ionian and Alfeo–Etna fault zones: New segments of an evolving plate boundary in the central Mediterranean Sea?

A Polonia, L Torelli, A Artoni, M Carlini, C Faccenna… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Calabrian Arc is a narrow subduction–rollback system resulting from
Africa/Eurasia plate convergence. While crustal shortening is taken up in the accretionary …

Palaeogeographical evolution of the Egadi Islands (western Sicily, Italy). Implications for late Pleistocene and early Holocene sea crossings by humans and other …

VL Presti, F Antonioli, MR Palombo, V Agnesi… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The continental shelf morphology offshore of western Sicily suggests that during the Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM, 20 ka cal BP), two of the Egadi Islands, Favignana and Levanzo …

Spatial variation of present‐day stress field and tectonic regime in Tunisia and surroundings from formal inversion of focal mechanisms: Geodynamic implications for …

A Soumaya, N Ben Ayed, D Delvaux, M Ghanmi - Tectonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We compiled 123 focal mechanisms from various sources for Tunisia and adjacent regions
up to Sicily, to image the current stress field in the Maghrebides chain (from Tunisia to Sicily) …

Fluid flow numerical experiments of faulted porous carbonates, Northwest Sicily (Italy)

M Antonellini, A Cilona, E Tondi, M Zambrano… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2014 - Elsevier
A methodology to assess the effects of structural heterogeneities below seismic resolution in
porous carbonate grainstones on reservoir performance during production is developed by …

Local spatial log-Gaussian Cox processes for seismic data

N D'Angelo, M Siino, A D'Alessandro… - AStA Advances in …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we propose the use of advanced and flexible statistical models to describe the
spatial displacement of earthquake data. The paper aims to account for the external …

Outgassing of mantle volatiles in compressional tectonic regime away from volcanism: the role of continental delamination

A Caracausi, A Sulli - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we discuss the occurrence of mantle‐derived heat and volatiles (ie, helium and
CO2) feeding hydrothermal systems in a seismically active margin between two convergent …

Growth processes, dimensional parameters and scaling relationships of two conjugate sets of compactive shear bands in porous carbonate grainstones, Favignana …

E Tondi, A Cilona, F Agosta, A Aydin… - Journal of Structural …, 2012 - Elsevier
Three main sets of deformation bands are identified in the Lower Pleistocene carbonate
grainstones of Favignana Island (Italy). A bedding-parallel set is interpreted to contain …

Submarine canyons of north-western Sicily (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): Variability in morphology, sedimentary processes and evolution on a tectonically active margin

CL Iacono, A Sulli, M Agate - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Swath-bathymetry, mono-channel and multi-channel seismic reflection records acquired
during the last two decades on the northern Sicilian margin have unveiled a dense network …

Including covariates in a space-time point process with application to seismicity

G Adelfio, M Chiodi - Statistical Methods & Applications, 2021 - Springer
The paper proposes a spatio-temporal process that improves the assessment of events in
space and time, considering a contagion model (branching process) within a regression-like …

Progressive migration of slab break-off along the southern Tyrrhenian plate boundary: Constraints for the present day kinematics

C Chiarabba, M Palano - Journal of Geodynamics, 2017 - Elsevier
The Ionian subduction in the central Mediterranean, just 200 km wide, is one of the
narrowest in the world. Its evolution has involved a progressive disruption of the subducting …