The Gibraltar subduction: A decade of new geophysical data

MA Gutscher, S Dominguez, GK Westbrook, P Le Roy… - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The Gibraltar arc, spans a complex portion of the Africa–Eurasia plate boundary marked by
slow oblique convergence and intermediate and deep focus seismicity. The seemingly …

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 …

Oceanic residual depth measurements, the plate cooling model, and global dynamic topography

MJ Hoggard, J Winterbourne… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Convective circulation of the mantle causes deflections of the Earth's surface that vary as a
function of space and time. Accurate measurements of this dynamic topography are …

Morphotectonics and strain partitioning at the Iberia–Africa plate boundary from multibeam and seismic reflection data

P Terrinha, L Matias, J Vicente, J Duarte, J Luis… - Marine Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
The Gulf of Cadiz, off SW Iberia and the NW Moroccan margin, straddles the cryptic plate
boundary between Africa and Eurasia, a region where the orogenic Alpine compressive …

Earthquakes in western Iberia: improving the understanding of lithospheric deformation in a slowly deforming region

S Custódio, NA Dias, F Carrilho… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Mainland Portugal, on the southwestern edge of the European continent, is located directly
north of the boundary between the Eurasian and Nubian plates. It lies in a region of slow …

Seismic evidence for the presence of Jurassic oceanic crust in the central Gulf of Cadiz (SW Iberian margin)

V Sallarès, A Gailler, MA Gutscher… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
We investigate the crustal structure of the SW Iberian margin along a 340km-long refraction
and wide-angle reflection seismic profile crossing from the central Gulf of Cadiz to the …

Far field tsunami simulations of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake: Implications for tsunami hazard to the US East Coast and the Caribbean

R Barkan, US ten Brink, J Lin - Marine Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
The great Lisbon earthquake of November 1st, 1755 with an estimated moment magnitude
of 8.5–9.0 was the most destructive earthquake in European history. The associated tsunami …

Understanding the 3D formation of a wide rift: The central South China Sea rift system

AL Cameselle, CR Ranero, U Barckhausen - Tectonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rifted margins result from continental lithosphere extension, breakup, and transition to
seafloor spreading by modes typically described by end‐member conceptual models …

Focal mechanisms for sub‐crustal earthquakes in the Gulf of Cadiz from a dense OBS deployment

WH Geissler, L Matias, D Stich… - Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
An eleven‐month deployment of 25 ocean bottom seismometers provides an
unprecedented opportunity to study low‐magnitude local earthquakes in the complex …