Cenozoic mountain building and topographic evolution in Western Europe: impact of billions of years of lithosphere evolution and plate kinematics

F Mouthereau, P Angrand… - BSGF-Earth …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The architecture and tectono-magmatic evolution of the lithosphere of Europe are the result
of a succession of subduction, rifting and inputs from plumes that have modified the …

[HTML][HTML] Four decades of geophysical research on Iberia and adjacent margins

J Diaz, M Torné, J Vergés, I Jimenez-Munt, J Martí… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The dimensions, the geographical position and the complex geological history of the Iberian
Peninsula makes it a unique and singular target to study its crustal and upper mantle …

Detailed tectonic reconstructions of the Western Mediterranean region for the last 35 Ma, insights on driving mechanisms

A Romagny, L Jolivet, A Menant… - Bulletin de la …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Slab retreat, slab tearing and interactions of slabs are first-order drivers of the deformation of
the overriding lithosphere. An independent description of the tectonic evolution of the back …

Puzzling features of western Mediterranean tectonics explained by slab dragging

W Spakman, MV Chertova, A van den Berg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The recent tectonic evolution of the western Mediterranean region is enigmatic. The causes
for the closure of the Moroccan marine gateway prior to the Messinian salinity crisis, for the …

The dynamics of forearc–back‐arc basin subsidence: Numerical models and observations from Mediterranean subduction zones

A Balázs, C Faccenna, T Gerya, K Ueda… - Tectonics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The subsidence history of forearc and back‐arc basins reflects the relationship between
subduction kinematics, mantle dynamics, magmatism, crustal tectonics, and surface …

Cenozoic volcanic provinces and shallow asthenospheric volumes in the Circum‐Mediterranean: Evidence from magmatic geochemistry, seismic tomography, and …

A El‐Sharkawy, TH Hansteen… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We compile an extensive catalog comprising geochemistry and ages of Cenozoic volcanic
provinces in the Mediterranean region, distinguishing between three groups according to …

[HTML][HTML] Transfer zones in Mediterranean back-arc regions and tear faults

L Jolivet, A Menant, V Roche… - Bulletin de la …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Slab tearing induces localized deformations in the overriding plates of subduction zones
and transfer zones accommodating differential retreat in back-arc regions. Because the …

A common deep source for upper-mantle upwellings below the Ibero-western Maghreb region from teleseismic P-wave travel-time tomography

C Civiero, V Strak, S Custódio, G Silveira… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Upper-mantle upwellings are often invoked as the cause of Cenozoic volcanism in the Ibero-
western Maghreb region. However, their nature, geometry and origin are unclear. This study …

An introduction to the Alpine cycle in Iberia

J Vergés, JC Kullberg, A Casas-Sainz… - The geology of Iberia: A …, 2019 - Springer
A global view of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Iberian microplate is
necessary to determine the role of inherited Variscan structures in the configuration of the …

Seismic scatterers in the lower mantle near subduction zones

S Kaneshima - Geophysical Journal International, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the global distribution of S-to-P scatterers in the shallow to mid-lower mantle
beneath subduction zones, where deep seismicity extends down to the bottom of the upper …