Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Auer, A Billi… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean offers a unique opportunity to study the driving forces of tectonic
deformation within a complex mobile belt. Lithospheric dynamics are affected by slab …

Evolution of the Pannonian basin and its geothermal resources

F Horváth, B Musitz, A Balázs, A Végh, A Uhrin… - Geothermics, 2015 - Elsevier
The Pannonian basin is an integral part of the convergence zone between the Eurasian and
Nubian plates characterized by active subductions of oceanic and continental plates, and …

Major unconformities/termination of extension events and associated surfaces in the South China Seas: Review and implications for tectonic development

CK Morley - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The distribution of unconformities and end of Cenozoic rifting events in the South China
Seas (SCS) reflects both the modes of rift development, and the effects of driving …

Monogenetic basaltic volcanoes: genetic classification, growth, geomorphology and degradation

G Kereszturi, K Németh - Updates in volcanology-new advances …, 2012 - books.google.com
Plate motion and associated tectonics explain the location of magmatic systems along plate
boundaries [1], however, they cannot give satisfactory explanations of the origin of intraplate …

Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Jolivet, M Keskin - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle East region represents a key site within the Tethyan domain where
continental break-up, collision, backarc extension and escape tectonics are kinematically …

Lithospheric Structure of the Circum‐Pannonian Region Imaged by S‐To‐P Receiver Functions

D Kalmár, L Petrescu, J Stipčević… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary and mid‐lithospheric discontinuities are primary
attributes of the upper mantle. The Pannonian region is an extensional sedimentary basin …

Early to Mid-Miocene syn-extensional massive silicic volcanism in the Pannonian Basin (East-Central Europe): Eruption chronology, correlation potential and …

R Lukács, S Harangi, M Guillong, O Bachmann… - Earth-science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Formation and evolution of the Pannonian Basin as part of the Mediterranean region was
accompanied by eruptions of compositionally diverse magmas during the Neogene to …

Surface wave tomography of the Alps using ambient‐noise and earthquake phase velocity measurements

ED Kästle, A El‐Sharkawy, L Boschi… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A large data set of surface wave phase velocity measurements is compiled to study the
structures of the crust and upper mantle underneath the Alpine continental collision zone …

Tracing widespread Early Miocene ignimbrite eruptions and petrogenesis at the onset of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region silicic volcanism

M Brlek, SR Tapster, J Schindlbeck-Belo, SP Gaynor… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Carpathian-Pannonian Region (CPR) hosted some of the largest silicic
volcanic eruptions in Europe during the Early and Middle Miocene, contemporaneously with …

Seismic velocity model of the crust and upper mantle along profile PANCAKE across the Carpathians between the Pannonian Basin and the East European Craton

V Starostenko, T Janik, K Kolomiyets, W Czuba… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Results are presented of a seismic wide-angle reflection/refraction survey along a profile
between the Pannonian Basin (PB) and the East European Craton (EEC) called PANCAKE …