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 Arabian Plate originated∼ 25Ma ago by rifting of NE Africa to form the Gulf of Aden and
Red Sea. It is one of the smaller and younger of the Earth's lithospheric plates. The upper …

Observations of seismic anisotropy yield some of the most direct constraints available on
both past and present-day deformation in the Earth's mantle. Insight into the character of …

Progress in seismic methodology and ambitious large‐scale seismic projects are enabling
high‐resolution imaging of the continental crust. The ability to constrain interpretations of …

We present a tomographic model of radially anisotropic shear velocity variations in the
Earth's mantle based on a new compilation of previously published data sets and a variable …

The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) is a first-order structural discontinuity that
accommodates differential motion between tectonic plates and the underlying mantle …

In addition to crustal thickening, distinctly different mechanisms have been suggested to
accommodate the huge convergences caused by the continental collision between India …

Seismic S-wave receiver functions (SRF) are a uniquely powerful tool for imaging velocity
discontinuities within the upper mantle. SRF data frequently contain negative phases at …

Measurements of the splitting or birefringence of seismic shear waves that have passed
through the Earth's mantle yield constraints on the strength and geometry of elastic …

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