[HTML][HTML] Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik, SM Schmid… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

Crustal structure and evolution of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian belt: A review and new interpretations from recent concepts and data

A Teixell, P Labaume, P Ayarza, N Espurt… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper provides a synthesis of current data and interpretations on the crustal structure of
the Pyrenean-Cantabrian orogenic belt, and presents new tectonic models for …

[HTML][HTML] Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin–implications for subduction processes in the Alps

E Le Breton, S Brune, K Ustaszewski, S Zahirovic… - Solid Earth, 2021 - se.copernicus.org
Assessing the size of a former ocean of which only remnants are found in mountain belts is
challenging but crucial to understanding subduction and exhumation processes. Here we …

Kinematic evolution of the southern North Atlantic: Implications for the formation of hyperextended rift systems

M Nirrengarten, G Manatschal, J Tugend, N Kusznir… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We focus on the southern North Atlantic rifted margins to investigate the partitioning and
propagation of deformation in hyperextended rift systems using plate kinematic modeling …

Evolution of the Alpine orogenic belts in the Western Mediterranean region as resolved by the kinematics of the Europe-Africa diffuse plate boundary

P Angrand, F Mouthereau - BSGF-Earth Sciences …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The West European collisional Alpine belts are the result of the inversion, initiated
in the middle Cretaceous, of the complex western Neotethys and the Atlantic continental rift …

[HTML][HTML] A reconstruction of Iberia accounting for Western Tethys–North Atlantic kinematics since the late-Permian–Triassic

P Angrand, F Mouthereau, E Masini, R Asti - Solid Earth, 2020 - se.copernicus.org
The western European kinematic evolution results from the opening of the western
Neotethys and the Atlantic oceans since the late Paleozoic and the Mesozoic. Geological …

A new southern North Atlantic isochron map: Insights into the drift of the Iberian plate since the Late Cretaceous

C Macchiavelli, J Vergés, A Schettino… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a new southern North Atlantic plate model from Late Cretaceous to
present, with the aim of constraining the kinematics of the Iberian plate during the last 83.5 …

The Mesozoic Iberia-Eurasia diffuse plate boundary: A wide domain of distributed transtensional deformation progressively focusing along the North Pyrenean Zone

R Asti, N Saspiturry, P Angrand - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Plate kinematic reconstructions available for the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous eastward
drift and counterclockwise rotation of the Iberian plate imply a major left-lateral motion of …

Alpine orogeny: Deformation and structure in the northern Iberian margin (Pyrenees sl)

JA Muñoz - The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Pyrenean Orogenic system formed by the contractional deformation of the
North Iberian margin from late Santonian to Middle Miocene times as a result of the collision …

Continental break-up of the South China Sea stalled by far-field compression

L Le Pourhiet, N Chamot-Rooke, M Delescluse… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The outcome of decades of two-dimensional modelling of lithosphere deformation under
extension is that mechanical coupling between the continental crust and the underlying …