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 …

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 …

A geodetic strain rate model for the East African Rift System

DS Stamps, E Saria, C Kreemer - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Here we describe the new Sub-Saharan Africa Geodetic Strain Rate Model v. 1.0 (SSA-
GSRM v. 1.0), which provides fundamental constraints on long-term tectonic deformation in …

Successful combination of electron spin resonance, luminescence and palaeomagnetic dating methods allows reconstruction of the Pleistocene evolution of the lower …

M Bartz, G Rixhon, M Duval, GE King… - Quaternary science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Based on a combination of Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating of quartz, luminescence
dating of K-feldspar and palaeomagnetism, this study presents the first chronostratigraphic …

The Diffuse Plate boundary of Nubia and Iberia in the Western Mediterranean: Crustal deformation evidence for viscous coupling and fragmented lithosphere

M Palano, PJ González, J Fernández - Earth and Planetary science letters, 2015 - Elsevier
A spatially dense GNSS-based crustal velocity field for the Iberian Peninsula and Northern
Africa allows us to provide new insights into two main tectonic processes currently occurring …

Active deformation in Algeria from continuous GPS measurements

A Bougrine, AK Yelles-Chaouche… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The present-day kinematics of plate boundary deformation in the western Mediterranean is
now well described by space geodetic measurements, except for the Algeria–Tunisia part of …

Active faulting geometry and stress pattern near complex strike‐slip systems along the Maghreb region: Constraints on active convergence in the Western …

A Soumaya, N Ben Ayed, M Rajabi, M Meghraoui… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Maghreb region (from Tunisia to Gibraltar) is a key area in the western
Mediterranean to study the active tectonics and stress pattern across the Africa‐Eurasia …

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) …

Geodynamic evolution of a wide plate boundary in the Western Mediterranean, near-field versus far-field interactions

L Jolivet, T Baudin, S Calassou… - BSGF-Earth …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The present-day tectonic setting of the Western Mediterranean region, from the Pyrénées to
the Betics and from the Alps to the Atlas, results from a complex 3-D geodynamic evolution …

Evidence for a developing plate boundary in the western Mediterranean

L Gómez de la Peña, C R. Ranero, E Gràcia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The current diffuse-strain model of the collision between Africa and Eurasia in the western
Mediterranean predicts a broad region with deformation distributed among numerous faults …