Marine transform faults and fracture zones: a joint perspective integrating seismicity, fluid flow and life

C Hensen, JC Duarte, P Vannucchi, A Mazzini… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Marine transform faults and associated fracture zones (MTFFZs) cover vast stretches of the
ocean floor, where they play a key role in plate tectonics, accommodating the lateral …

[HTML][HTML] Four decades of geophysical research on Iberia and adjacent margins

J Diaz, M Torné, J Vergés, I Jimenez-Munt, J Martí… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The dimensions, the geographical position and the complex geological history of the Iberian
Peninsula makes it a unique and singular target to study its crustal and upper mantle …

Investigation of the noise properties at low frequencies in long GNSS time series

X He, MS Bos, JP Montillet, RMS Fernandes - Journal of Geodesy, 2019 - Springer
The accuracy by which velocities can be estimated from GNSS time series is mainly
determined by the low-frequency noise, below 0.2–0.1 cpy, which are normally described by …

Puzzling features of western Mediterranean tectonics explained by slab dragging

W Spakman, MV Chertova, A van den Berg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The recent tectonic evolution of the western Mediterranean region is enigmatic. The causes
for the closure of the Moroccan marine gateway prior to the Messinian salinity crisis, for the …

Earthquake size distributions are slightly different in compression vs extension

M Taroni, MMC Carafa - Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The earthquake size distribution is described by an exponential function governed by the b-
value parameter. It has already been proven that the b-value depends on the differential …

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 …

Extracting small deformation beyond individual station precision from dense Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) networks in France and western Europe

C Masson, S Mazzotti, P Vernant, E Doerflinger - Solid Earth, 2019 - se.copernicus.org
We use 2 decades of data from a dense geodetic network to extract regionally coherent
velocities and deformation rates in France and neighboring western European countries …

Earthquake crisis unveils the growth of an incipient continental fault system

E Gràcia, I Grevemeyer, R Bartolomé, H Perea… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Large continental faults extend for thousands of kilometres to form boundaries between rigid
tectonic blocks. These faults are associated with prominent topographic features and can …

Micro-seismicity in the Gulf of Cadiz: Is there a link between micro-seismicity, high magnitude earthquakes and active faults?

S Silva, P Terrinha, L Matias, JC Duarte, C Roque… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf of Cadiz seismicity is characterized by persistent low to intermediate
magnitude earthquakes, occasionally punctuated by high magnitude events such as the M …

A common deep source for upper-mantle upwellings below the Ibero-western Maghreb region from teleseismic P-wave travel-time tomography

C Civiero, V Strak, S Custódio, G Silveira… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Upper-mantle upwellings are often invoked as the cause of Cenozoic volcanism in the Ibero-
western Maghreb region. However, their nature, geometry and origin are unclear. This study …