A region‐by‐region analysis of 204 reliable focal‐mechanism solutions for deep and
intermediate‐depth earthquakes strongly supports the idea that portions of the lithosphere …

Ever since their recognition, ophiolites have been a source of controversy, although all
workers have agreed upon their importance. A number of conflicting schools of thought have …

Forty years after the image of the Mediterranean transformed into a giant salty lake was first
conceived, the fascinating history of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) still arouses great …

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Examination of more than 100 fault plane solutions for earthquakes within the Alpide belt
between the Mid-Atlantic ridge and Eastern Iran shows that the deformation at present …

It is contended that the Late Triassic to present-day gross evolution of the Alpine system in
the Mediterranean region has been the result of activity along an evolving network of …

Using the fault plane mechanisms of the shallow earthquakes occurring along the Hellenic
arc and the extent of the intermediate seismic belt, we make a quantitative estimate of the …

articles Page 1 Nature Vol. 267 2 June 1977 399 articles History of the Mediterranean
salinity crisis Kenneth J. Hsii Geological Institute, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Lucien …

We propose a series of paleogeographic maps of the western alpine system, from Triassic to
Present, based on the geologic structure and evolution of the Mediterranean, its adjacent …

Three-dimensional (3D) seismic data from the continental margin offshore Israel (Eastern
Mediterranean) have been used to analyse the compressional structures within the toe …