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 …
The western Mediterranean subduction zone (WMSZ) extends from the northern Apennine to southern Spain and turns around forming the narrow and tight Calabrian and Gibraltar …
C Doglioni - Terra nova, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
In W‐dipping subduction zones there is a general eastward progression of the back‐arc basin‐accretionary wedge‐foredeep complex. With the forward progression, early stages of …
During the Neogene and Quaternary western Mediterranean geodynamics were dominated by theeastward'migration of the Apenninic arc and associated back-arc basins. The …
E Patacca, P Scandone - Bollettino della Società Geologica …, 2007 - researchgate.net
This paper aims to provide a concise description of the geology of the Southern Apennines especially useful for readers having scarce familiarity with this complex region. The text is …
PROCESSES that control carbon uptake by marine phytoplankton are important in the global carbon cycle11–3. Uptake of CO2 itself may be limited by diffusion4. Bicarbonate …
L Carmignani, R Kligfield - Tectonics, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
An interpretation of Northern Apennine geology is presented which relates the temporal and spatial occurrence of both compressional and extensional deformation features in terms of …
L Ferranti, F Antonioli, B Mauz, A Amorosi… - Quaternary …, 2006 - Elsevier
A compilation of the Marine Isotope Substage (MIS) 5.5 high stand (∼ 125Ka) sites spanning the coastline of Italy allows a picture of the vertical displacement pattern affecting …
Quaternary tectonics and paleoseismologicalinvestigations have defined a reliable framework ofactive faults in the southern Umbria and AbruzziApennines. Two sets of NW …