Historical and pre-historical tsunamis in the Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts

GA Papadopoulos, E Gràcia, R Urgeles, V Sallares… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The origin of tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected seas, including the
Marmara Sea, the Black Sea and the SW Iberian Margin in the NE Atlantic Ocean, is …

The evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean basins

LG de la Peña, CR Ranero, E Gràcia… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on more than 4,500 km of new and re-processed multichannel seismic lines, high-
resolution seafloor bathymetry, available well data, and basement dredge samples, we have …

Ecological characterisation of a Mediterranean cold-water coral reef: Cabliers coral mound province (Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean)

G Corbera, CL Iacono, E Gràcia, J Grinyó… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scleractinian cold-water coral (CWC) reefs are key habitats for benthic fauna as they
enhance spatial heterogeneity and biodiversity. Understanding their environmental and …

A 6600 year earthquake history in the region of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone earthquake

JR Patton, C Goldfinger, AE Morey, K Ikehara… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In order to investigate the possibility of a long-term paleoseismic history from offshore
sedimentary records in Sumatra, we collected 144 deep-sea sediment cores in the trench …

The crustal domains of the Alboran Basin (western Mediterranean)

L Gómez de la Peña, CR Ranero, E Gràcia - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Alboran Basin in the westernmost Mediterranean hosts the orogenic boundary
between the Iberian and African plates. Although numerous geophysical studies of crustal …

Seismicity and active tectonics in the Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean: Constraints from an offshore‐onshore seismological network and swath bathymetry data

I Grevemeyer, E Gràcia, A Villaseñor… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Seismicity and tectonic structure of the Alboran Sea were derived from a large amphibious
seismological network deployed in the offshore basins and onshore in Spain and Morocco …

The West Melilla cold water coral mounds, Eastern Alboran Sea: Morphological characterization and environmental context

CL Iacono, E Gràcia, CR Ranero, M Emelianov… - Deep Sea Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
A new mound field, the West Melilla mounds, interpreted as being cold-water coral mounds,
has been recently unveiled along the upper slope of the Mediterranean Moroccan …

Submarine active faults and Morpho-Tectonics around the Iberian margins: seismic and tsunamis hazards

L Somoza, T Medialdea, P Terrinha, A Ramos… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this work is to make a synthesis at regional scale focused on the geophysical
characterization of submarine faults around the Iberian margin to identify active structures …

Compressional tectonic inversion of the Algero‐Balearic basin: Latemost Miocene to present oblique convergence at the Palomares margin (Western Mediterranean)

F Giaconia, G Booth‐Rea, CR Ranero, E Gràcia… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Interpretation of new multichannel seismic reflection profiles indicates that the
Palomares margin was formed by crustal‐scale extension and coeval magmatic accretion …

Geodetic evidence for continuing tectonic activity of the Carboneras fault (SE Spain)

A Echeverria, G Khazaradze, E Asensio, E Masana - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
The Carboneras fault zone (CFZ) is a prominent onshore–offshore strike–slip fault that forms
part of the Eastern Betic Shear Zone (EBSZ), located in SE Spain. In this work, we show for …