[HTML][HTML] Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

DG Van der Meer, DJJ Van Hinsbergen, W Spakman - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Across the entire mantle we interpret 94 positive seismic wave-speed anomalies as
subducted lithosphere and associate these slabs with their geological record. We document …

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 …

Subduction initiation from the earliest stages to self-sustained subduction: Insights from the analysis of 70 Cenozoic sites

S Lallemand, D Arcay - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
To address the question of the initiation and mechanisms involved in the process of
subduction zone formation, we explored most of the available evidence for the subduction …

Geodynamic evolution of the central and western Mediterranean: Tectonics vs. igneous petrology constraints

E Carminati, M Lustrino, C Doglioni - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
We present a geodynamic reconstruction of the Central–Western Mediterranean and
neighboring areas during the last 50Myr, including magmatological and tectonic …

Alps vs. Apennines: The paradigm of a tectonically asymmetric Earth

E Carminati, C Doglioni - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan
passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic …

The Central-Western Mediterranean: Anomalous igneous activity in an anomalous collisional tectonic setting

M Lustrino, S Duggen, CL Rosenberg - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
The central-western Mediterranean area is a key region for understanding the complex
interaction between igneous activity and tectonics. In this review, the specific geochemical …

Ivrea mantle wedge, arc of the Western Alps, and kinematic evolution of the Alps–Apennines orogenic system

SM Schmid, E Kissling, T Diehl… - Swiss Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The construction of five crustal-scale profiles across the Western Alps and the Ivrea mantle
wedge integrates up-to-date geological and geophysical information and reveals important …

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 …

Early to Mid-Miocene syn-extensional massive silicic volcanism in the Pannonian Basin (East-Central Europe): Eruption chronology, correlation potential and …

R Lukács, S Harangi, M Guillong, O Bachmann… - Earth-science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Formation and evolution of the Pannonian Basin as part of the Mediterranean region was
accompanied by eruptions of compositionally diverse magmas during the Neogene to …

[HTML][HTML] Miocene paleoceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean area and carbonate production changes: A review

I Cornacchia, M Brandano, S Agostini - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Miocene is a key interval in the global climate evolution as well as in the geodynamic
evolution of the Mediterranean basin. Therefore, global and regional factors controlled …