[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 …

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 …

The Puglia uplift (SE Italy): an anomaly in the foreland of the Apenninic subduction due to buckling of a thick continental lithosphere

C Doglioni, F Mongelli, P Pieri - Tectonics, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The Apenninic foreland shows two distinct structural signatures comparing the central
Adriatic Sea and the Puglia region. During the Pliocene‐Pleistocene the central Adriatic …

Active tectonics of the Adriatic region from GPS and earthquake slip vectors

N D'agostino, A Avallone, D Cheloni… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the kinematics of the Adriatic region, we integrate continuous and episodic
GPS measurements with Mw> 4.5 earthquake slip vectors selected from the Regional …

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 …

The dynamics of back-arc extension: an experimental approach to the opening of the Tyrrhenian Sea

C Faccenna, P Davy, JP Brun… - Geophysical Journal …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Summary The EW-opening Tyrrhenian Sea developed after the Cretaceous-Palaeogene
Alpine collision, nearly perpendicular to the motion of the African plate, as a back-arc of the …

Construction of a seismotectonic model: the case of Italy

C Meletti, E Patacca, P Scandone - Pure and applied Geophysics, 2000 - Springer
Procedures for constructing a seismotectonic model of Italy, designed to be used as a basis
for hazard assessment, are described. The seismotectonic analysis has essentially been …

Particle size distributions in natural carbonate fault rocks: insights for non-self-similar cataclasis

F Storti, A Billi, F Salvini - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
Particle size distributions of cataclastic rocks influence the mechanical and fluid flow
behaviour of fault zones. Available data from natural cataclastic rocks are still controversial …

Strike-slip fault-propagation cleavage in carbonate rocks: the Mattinata Fault Zone, Southern Apennines, Italy

F Salvini, A Billi, DU Wise - Journal of Structural Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
Disjunctive, spaced solution cleavage in carbonate rocks is genetically associated with the
propagation of the left-lateral, strike-slip Mattinata Fault in the Gargano Promontory, Italy …

Active fragmentation of Adria, the north African promontory, central Mediterranean orogen

JS Oldow, L Ferranti, DS Lewis, JK Campbell… - …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Global Positioning System (GPS) velocities indicate that Adria no longer behaves
as a rigid tectonic indenter into southern Europe and is divided into northwestern and …