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 central-western Mediterranean area is a key region for understanding the complex
interaction between igneous activity and tectonics. In this review, the specific geochemical …

The western Mediterranean subduction zone (WMSZ) extends from the northern Apennine
to southern Spain and turns around forming the narrow and tight Calabrian and Gibraltar …

In W‐dipping subduction zones there is a general eastward progression of the back‐arc
basin‐accretionary wedge‐foredeep complex. With the forward progression, early stages of …

Geological and geophysical constraints to reconstruct the evolution of the Central
Mediterranean subduction zone are presented. Geological observations such as upper plate …

Italian Plio-Quaternary magmatism exhibits a very wide petrological, geochemical and
radiogenic-isotope variability, which makes magma genesis and geodynamic significance …

A compilation of the Marine Isotope Substage (MIS) 5.5 high stand (∼ 125Ka) sites
spanning the coastline of Italy allows a picture of the vertical displacement pattern affecting …

Subduction zones appear primarily controlled by the polarity of their direction, ie, W-directed
or E-to NNE-directed, probably due to the westward drift of the lithosphere relative to the …

A review of the geological and geophysical data from the central and western Mediterranean
region and the present-day upper mantle structure derived from tomographic studies are …

In the Central Mediterranean, during the last 80 Myr Africa has been slowly converging
toward Eurasia, with an average relative velocity of less than 1 cm yr− 1. For 50 Myr this slow …