Tectonic expression of an active slab tear from high‐resolution seismic and bathymetric data offshore Sicily (Ionian Sea)

MA Gutscher, S Dominguez, BM de Lepinay… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Subduction of a narrow slab of oceanic lithosphere beneath a tightly curved orogenic arc
requires the presence of at least one lithospheric scale tear fault. While the Calabrian …

Lower plate serpentinite diapirism in the Calabrian Arc subduction complex

A Polonia, L Torelli, L Gasperini, L Cocchi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Mantle-derived serpentinites have been detected at magma-poor rifted margins and above
subduction zones, where they are usually produced by fluids released from the slab to the …

Deformation pattern of the northern sector of the Malta escarpment (Offshore SE Sicily, Italy): fault dimension, slip prediction, and seismotectonic implications

S Gambino, G Barreca, F Gross, C Monaco… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine seismic reflection data coupled with on-land structural measurements improve our
knowledge about the active deformation pattern of the northern sector of the Malta …

Fast geodetic strain-rates in eastern Sicily (southern Italy): New insights into block tectonics and seismic potential in the area of the great 1693 earthquake

BM Ventura, E Serpelloni, A Argnani, A Bonforte… - Earth and planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Along the∼ 500 km long Sicily–Calabria segment of the Nubia–Eurasia plate boundary
GPS data highlight a complex, and debated, kinematic pattern. We focus on eastern Sicily …

Foreland segmentation along an active convergent margin: New constraints in southeastern Sicily (Italy) from seismic and geodetic observations

C Musumeci, L Scarfì, M Palano, D Patanè - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
We performed an in-depth analysis of the ongoing tectonics of a large sector of southern
Sicily, including the Hyblean Foreland and the front of the Maghrebian Chain, as well as the …

New structural and seismological evidence and interpretation of a lithospheric‐scale shear zone at the southern edge of the Ionian subduction system (central‐eastern …

G Barreca, L Scarfì, F Cannavò, I Koulakov… - Tectonics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Geological, gravimetric, and seismological data from the central‐eastern Sicily (Italy) provide
evidences of a NW‐SE oriented shear zone at the southern edge of the Ionian subduction …

Transtension at the Northern Termination of the Alfeo-Etna Fault System (Western Ionian Sea, Italy): Seismotectonic Implications and Relation with Mt. Etna Volcanism

S Gambino, G Barreca, V Bruno, G De Guidi, C Ferlito… - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Offshore data in the western Ionian Sea indicate that the NW–SE-trending dextral shear
zone of the Alfeo-Etna Fault System turns to the N–S direction near the Ionian coastline …

Assessing the rate of crustal extension by 2D sequential restoration analysis: A case study from the active portion of the Malta Escarpment

S Gambino, G Barreca, F Gross, C Monaco… - Basin …, 2022 - earthdoc.org
Tectono‐stratigraphic interpretation and sequential restoration modelling was performed
over two high‐resolution seismic profiles crossing the Western Ionian Basin of southern Italy …

Fault reactivation by stress pattern reorganization in the Hyblean foreland domain of SE Sicily (Italy) and seismotectonic implications

F Cultrera, G Barreca, L Scarfì, C Monaco - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Between the October 2011 and the July 2012, several seismic swarms occurred in the
Hyblean foreland domain of SE Sicily (Italy) along the Cavagrande Canyon, one of the most …

Faulting, sediment loading, and flow of underlying ductile units: A case study from the Western Ionian Basin Offshore Eastern Sicily

S Gambino, G Barreca, F Gross, GI Alsop… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tectono-stratigraphic analysis coupled with digital 3D surface modelling derived from high-
resolution seismic profiles is performed along a narrow turbidite basin offshore E-Sicily in …