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 …

Alps vs. Apennines: The paradigm of a tectonically asymmetric Earth

E Carminati, C Doglioni - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan
passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic …

The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present

S Pondrelli, S Salimbeni, G Ekström, A Morelli… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The INGV-Harvard European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor (RCMT)
Catalog collects solutions routinely computed since 1997 for earthquakes with moderate …

The Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS), version 3: summarizing 20 years of research on Italy's earthquake geology

R Basili, G Valensise, P Vannoli, P Burrato, U Fracassi… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper describes the main characteristics, the evolution, and the structure of the
Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS) and particularly of its release of early …

Evidence of large scale deformation patterns from GPS data in the Italian subduction boundary

R Devoti, A Esposito, G Pietrantonio, AR Pisani… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present the velocity field in Italy derived from over 300 continuous GPS stations operated
in the 1998–2009 time span. The GPS network maps the whole country with a mean inter …

Twenty years of paleoseismology in Italy

P Galli, F Galadini, D Pantosti - Earth-Science Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Italy has one of the most complete and historically extensive seismic catalogues in the World
due to a unique and uninterrupted flow of written sources that have narrated its seismic …

Radiography of a normal fault system by 64,000 high‐precision earthquake locations: The 2009 L'Aquila (central Italy) case study

L Valoroso, L Chiaraluce, D Piccinini… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the anatomy of the fault system where the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (MW 6.1)
nucleated by means of~ 64 k high‐precision earthquake locations spanning 1 year. Data …

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 …

Plate boundary forces are not enough: Second‐and third‐order stress patterns highlighted in the World Stress Map database

O Heidbach, J Reinecker, M Tingay, B Müller… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The World Stress Map Project compiles a global database of contemporary tectonic stress
information of the Earth's crust. Early releases of the World Stress Map Project demonstrated …

Holocene relative sea-level changes and vertical movements along the Italian and Istrian coastlines

F Antonioli, L Ferranti, A Fontana, A Amorosi… - Quaternary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Published and new data exist for relative sea-level change for 105 locations (127 samples)
during the late Holocene, along the Italian (and Istrian) coasts. These data, compared with …