Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan
passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic …

Vertical tearing of oceanic slabs has been well documented at subduction zones. It remains
unclear whether a subducting continent can tear vertically. Origin of the continental-scale …

In the first edition, we paid attention not only to tsunami waves, but to related phenomena,
namely, seaquakes, as well, which to a significant extent reflected the interests of the …

Compressional intracontinental orogens are major zones of crustal thickening produced at
large distances from active plate boundaries. Consequently, any account of their initiation …

The mechanisms driving plate motion and the Earth's geodynamics are still not entirely
clarified. Lithospheric volumes recycled at subduction zones or emerging at rift zones testify …

While mantle convection is a fundamental ingredient of geodynamics, the driving
mechanism of plate tectonics remains elusive. Are plates driven only from the thermal …

Earthquakes are dissipation of energy throughout elastic waves. Canonically is the elastic
energy accumulated during the interseismic period. However, in crustal extensional settings …

Slab dip varies significantly, both between different, and along single subduction zones.
Provided that old subducting plates are colder and denser than young plates, variations in …

Quantifying the emergy baseline of the Earth is a practical necessity for emergy evaluations,
because it serves as a unified basis for determining transformities of the available energy …

The force that drives continental drift has been one of the most challenging subjects of the
plate tectonics theory in the last decades. The Proto-Tethys evolution exemplifies a scenario …