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Paleogeography and structure of the central Mediterranean: Sicily and its offshore area
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The geology of the mainland and offshore of Sicily is illustrated by a few geologic sections and seismic profiles across the late Cenozoic orogenic belt of central and western Sicily and across the Sardinia Channel and Sicily Straits as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Tectonophysics.The article was published on 1996-08-15. It has received 221 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreland basin & Continental margin.read more
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Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen,Trond H. Torsvik,Trond H. Torsvik,Stefan M. Schmid,Liviu Maţenco,Marco Maffione,Marco Maffione,Reinoud L.M. Vissers,Derya Gürer,Derya Gürer,Wim Spakman,Wim Spakman +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use advances made in kinematic restoration software in the last decade with a systematic reconstruction protocol for developing a more quantitative restoration of the Mediterranean region for the last 240 million years.
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Alps vs. Apennines: The paradigm of a tectonically asymmetric Earth
Eugenio Carminati,Carlo Doglioni +1 more
TL;DR: Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic plates as mentioned in this paper.
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The southernmost margin of the Tethys realm during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic: Initial geometry and timing of the inversion processes
Dominique Frizon de Lamotte,Camille Raulin,Nicolas Mouchot,Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau,Christian Blanpied,Jean-Claude Ringenbach +5 more
TL;DR: The existence of synchronous geodynamic events from one end of the system to the other, although they do not have the same meaning, is emphasized in this article, where two of them are particularly important: the Campanian-Santonian (C-S) event corresponds to obduction and exhumation of high pressure-low-temperature metamorphic rocks around the Arabian promontory, inversion along the margins of the East Mediterranean basins, and lithosphere buckling in the Atlas system (Maghreb and adjacent Sahara platform).
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A recent tectonic reorganization in the south-central Mediterranean
TL;DR: In this article, new geodetic data combined with seismicity, geologic and geochemical information document a major tectonic reorganization in the central Mediterranean around 0.8-0.5 Ma, when rapid trench migration and consequent Tyrrhenian back-arc extension which dominated the region's evolution since the Tortonian (10−8 Ma) essentially stopped.
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Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey
Stefan M. Schmid,Bernhard Fügenschuh,Alexandre Kounov,Liviu Maţenco,Peter Nievergelt,Roland Oberhänsli,Jan Pleuger,Senecio Schefer,Ralf Schuster,Bruno Tomljenović,Kamil Ustaszewski,Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, a map that correlates tectonic units between Alps and western Turkey accompanied by a text providing access to literature data is presented, explaining the concepts used for defining the mapped Tectonic Units, and first-order paleogeographic inferences.
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Geological evolution of the tethys belt from the atlantic to the pamirs since the LIAS
J. Dercourt,L.P. Zonenshain,L. E. Ricou,V. G. Kazmin,X. Le Pichon,A. L. Knipper,C. Grandjacquet,I.M. Sbortshikov,J. Geyssant,Claude Lepvrier,D.H. Pechersky,J. Boulin,Jean-Claude Sibuet,L. A. Savostin,O. Sorokhtin,M. Westphal,Mikhail L. Bazhenov,J. P. Lauer,B. Biju-Duval +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of the Tethys belt from the Pliensbachian (190 Ma) to the Tortonian (10 Ma) is depicted at 1 20,000,000 scale.
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A Geologic time scale 1989
TL;DR: The magnetostratigraphic time scale as mentioned in this paper has been used for the calibration of stage boundaries in the last few decades and has been shown to be useful in the measurement of geologic events.
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Adria, the African promontory, in mesozoic Mediterranean palaeogeography
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of Adria as having behaved as a promontory of the African plate is tested by correlation of the main tectonic events in the belt with the spreading history of the Atlantic.