[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 …

Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey

SM Schmid, B Fügenschuh, A Kounov, L Maţenco… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a map that correlates tectonic units between Alps and western Turkey
accompanied by a text providing access to literature data, explaining the concepts used for …

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 …

Evolution of the Pannonian basin and its geothermal resources

F Horváth, B Musitz, A Balázs, A Végh, A Uhrin… - Geothermics, 2015 - Elsevier
The Pannonian basin is an integral part of the convergence zone between the Eurasian and
Nubian plates characterized by active subductions of oceanic and continental plates, and …

Reconstructing the Alps–Carpathians–Dinarides as a key to understanding switches in subduction polarity, slab gaps and surface motion

MR Handy, K Ustaszewski, E Kissling - International Journal of Earth …, 2015 - Springer
Palinspastic map reconstructions and plate motion studies reveal that switches in
subduction polarity and the opening of slab gaps beneath the Alps and Dinarides were …

Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans

P Agard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Alps are amongst the best subduction archives in the world, with abundant blueschists
and eclogites preserving fragments of mantle, gabbros, thinned continental margin and …

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 …

Neogene palaeogeography and basin evolution of the Western Carpathians, Northern Pannonian domain and adjoining areas

M Kováč, E Márton, N Oszczypko, R Vojtko… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
The data on the Neogene geodynamics, palaeogeography, and basin evolution of the
Western Carpathians, Northern Pannonian domain and adjoining areas (ALCAPA Mega …

Database of active faults in Slovenia: compiling a new active fault database at the junction between the Alps, the Dinarides and the Pannonian Basin tectonic domains

J Atanackov, P Jamšek Rupnik, J Jež… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We present the compilation of a new database of active faults in Slovenia, aiming at
introducing geological data for the first time as input for a new national seismic hazard …

Slab breakoff: A critical appraisal of a geological theory as applied in space and time

E Garzanti, G Radeff, MG Malusà - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The idea that prominent geological phenomena observed in the crust and at the surface may
be caused by the detachment of subducting dense lithosphere has been anticipated by …