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 …

Present-day kinematics of the Mediterranean: A comprehensive overview of GPS results

JM Nocquet - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
I combine recently published GPS results to derive a geodetic horizontal velocity field
consistent at the scale of the Mediterranean and the surrounding Alpine belts. The velocity …

A geodetic plate motion and Global Strain Rate Model

C Kreemer, G Blewitt, EC Klein - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new global model of plate motions and strain rates in plate boundary zones
constrained by horizontal geodetic velocities. This Global Strain Rate Model (GSRM v. 2.1) …

Incidence and mortality due to snakebite in the Americas

JP Chippaux - PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Better knowledge of the epidemiological characteristics of snakebites could
help to take measures to improve their management. The incidence and mortality of …

GPS constraints on continental deformation in the Africa‐Arabia‐Eurasia continental collision zone and implications for the dynamics of plate interactions

R Reilinger, S McClusky, P Vernant… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The GPS‐derived velocity field (1988–2005) for the zone of interaction of the Arabian,
African (Nubian, Somalian), and Eurasian plates indicates counterclockwise rotation of a …

Kinematics of the Western Africa-Eurasia plate boundary from focal mechanisms and GPS data

E Serpelloni, G Vannucci, S Pondrelli… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Western Mediterranean displays a complex pattern of crustal deformation
distributed along tectonically active belts developed in the framework of slow oblique plate …

Spatiotemporal filtering using principal component analysis and Karhunen‐Loeve expansion approaches for regional GPS network analysis

D Dong, P Fang, Y Bock, F Webb… - … research: solid earth, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial filtering is an effective way to improve the precision of coordinate time series for
regional GPS networks by reducing so‐called common mode errors, thereby providing …

4D analogue modelling of transtensional pull-apart basins

JE Wu, K McClay, P Whitehouse, T Dooley - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
Scaled sandbox models were used to investigate the 4D evolution of pull-apart basins
formed above underlapping releasing stepovers in both pure strike-slip and transtensional …

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 …

Geodetic constraints on present‐day motion of the Arabian Plate: Implications for Red Sea and Gulf of Aden rifting

A ArRajehi, S McClusky, R Reilinger, M Daoud… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Five years of continuously recording GPS observations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
together with new continuous and survey‐mode GPS observations broadly distributed …