During the last four decades, subduction remained one of the most challenging and
captivating geodynamic processes investigated with numerical techniques. While significant …

Since the advent of plate tectonics different global reference frames have been used to
describe the motion of plates and trenches. The difference in plate motion and trench …

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 recent years, the origin of the Betic‐Rif orocline has been the subject of considerable
debate. Much of this debate has focused on mechanisms required to generate rapid late …

The Eastern Mediterranean region exhibits a fascinating diversity of ophiolites and related
oceanic magmatic units of mainly Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous age. Comparisons with …

Subducting slabs provide the main driving force for plate motion and flow in the Earth's
mantle,,,, and geodynamic, seismic and geochemical studies offer insight into slab dynamics …

Back-arc extension or compression is often related to a particular behavior of the slab (dip
change and/or forward/backward migration) with respect to the upper plate. Slabs act, either …

Miyashiro (1973) famously initiated a debate on the tectonic setting of ophiolite complexes
by proposing that 'the Troodos ophiolitic complex was probably formed in an island arc'. This …

The past decade has witnessed spectacular progress in the collection of observational data
and their interpretation in the Pannonian Basin and the surrounding Alpine, Carpathian and …

Reconstruction of the evolution of the Tyrrhenian Sea shows that the major stage of rifting
associated with the opening of this basin began at∼ 10 Ma. It involved two episodes of back …