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A synchronous Alpine and Corsica-Sardinia rotation

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Aegean tectonics: Strain localisation, slab tearing and trench retreat

Alpine orogenic P-T-t-deformation history of the Catena Costiera area and surrounding regions (Calabrian Arc, southern Italy): The nappe edifice of north Calabria revised with insights on the Tyrrhenian-Apennine system formation

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Alpine structural and metamorphic signature of the Sila Piccola Massif nappe stack (Calabria, Italy): Insights for the tectonic evolution of the Calabrian Arc

scientific article published in 2001

Clinopyroxene–rutile phyllonites from the East Tenda Shear Zone (Alpine Corsica, France): pressure–temperature–time constraints to the Alpine reworking of Variscan Corsica

scientific article published in November 2012

Constraints on mantle circulation around the deforming Calabrian slab

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Continental delamination: Insights from laboratory models

Contrasting styles of (U)HP rock exhumation along the Cenozoic Adria-Europe plate boundary (Western Alps, Calabria, Corsica)

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Convergence rate-dependent growth of experimental viscous orogenic wedges

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Corrigendum to “Plateau versus fissure ridge travertines from Quaternary geothermal springs of Italy and Turkey: Interactions and feedbacks between fluid discharge, paleoclimate, and tectonics” [Earth Sci. Rev. 123 (2013) 35–52]

scientific article published in December 2013

Deep Slab folding and the deformation of the Persian domain

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Deep Structure of Northern Apennines Subduction Orogen (Italy) as Revealed by a Joint Interpretation of Passive and Active Seismic Data

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Divergence in subduction zones and exhumation of high pressure rocks (Eocene Western Alps)

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Dynamics of retreating slabs: 2. Insights from three-dimensional laboratory experiments

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Dynamics of the Gibraltar Arc System: A Complex Interaction Between Plate Convergence, Slab Pull, and Mantle Flow

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Dynamics of the Ryukyu/Izu-Bonin-Marianas double subduction system

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Early Miocene strike-slip tectonics and granite emplacement in the Alboran Domain (Rif Chain, Morocco): significance for the geodynamic evolution of Western Mediterranean

scientific article published in November 2013

Episodic back-arc extension during restricted mantle convection in the Central Mediterranean

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Evolution of the Calabrian accretionary wedge (central Mediterranean)

scientific article published in 2010

Extensional crustal tectonics and crust-mantle coupling, a view from the geological record

scientific article published in October 2018

From mantle to crust: Stretching the Mediterranean

scientific article published in July 2009

From subduction to collision: Control of deep processes on the evolution of convergent plate boundary

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Geomorphic signal of active faulting at the northern edge of Lut Block: Insights on the kinematic scenario of Central Iran

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Geoscientists, Who Have Documented the Rapid and Accelerating Climate Crisis for Decades, Are Now Pleading for Immediate Collective Action

scientific article published in 2021

Hidden sinkholes and karst cavities in the travertine plateau of a highly-populated geothermal seismic territory (Tivoli, central Italy)

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History of subduction and back-arc extension in the Central Mediterranean

Impact of the lithosphere on dynamic topography: Insights from analogue modeling

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Incipient extension along the active convergent margin of Nubia in Sicily, Italy: Cefalù-Etna seismic zone

scholarly article by Andrea Billi et al published August 2010 in Tectonics

Insights from the Apennines metamorphic complexes and their bearing on the kinematics evolution of the orogen

Isostasy, dynamic topography, and the elevation of the Apennines of Italy

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Isostasy, flexure, and dynamic topography

scholarly article by Zohar Gvirtzman et al published June 2016 in Tectonophysics

Late Cenozoic exhumation of the French Massif Central: constraints to long wavelength uplift from thermochronology analysis

Lateral slab deformation and the origin of the western Mediterranean arcs

scientific article published in 2004

Magmatism and crustal extension: Constraining activation of the ductile shearing along the Gediz detachment, Menderes Massif (western Turkey)

article published in 2017

Magnetic fabric and structural setting of Plio-Pleistocene clayey units in an extensional regime: the Tyrrhenian margin of central Italy

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Mantle Flow and Deforming Continents: From India-Asia Convergence to Pacific Subduction

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

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

scientific article published in August 2013

Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt

scientific article published in October 2011

Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

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Mantle flow and dynamic topography associated with slab window opening: Insights from laboratory models

Mantle kinematics driving collisional subduction: Insights from analogue modeling

scientific article published in November 2018

Mediterranean extension and the Africa-Eurasia collision

scientific article published in December 2000

Midcrustal shear zones in postorogenic extension: Example from the northern Tyrrhenian Sea

scientific article published in 1998

Middle Miocene out-of-sequence thrusting and successive exhumation in the Peloritani Mountains, Sicily: Late stage evolution of an orogen unraveled by apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

scientific article published in 2010

Modeling Slab-Slab Interactions: Dynamics of Outward Dipping Double-Sided Subduction Systems

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Modeling of temperature-dependent strength in orogenic wedges: First results from a new thermomechanical apparatus

article published in 2001

Mountain building and mantle dynamics

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Neo-Tethys geodynamics and mantle convection: from extension to compression in Africa and a conceptual model for obduction

scientific article published in November 2016

New insights into the crust and lithospheric mantle structure of Africa from elevation, geoid, and thermal analysis

On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy

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On the influence of the asthenospheric flow on the tectonics and topography at a collision-subduction transition zones: Comparison with the eastern Tibetan margin

scholarly article by Pietro Sternai et al published October 2016 in Journal of Geodynamics

On the relation between trench migration, seafloor age, and the strength of the subducting lithosphere

scientific article published in 2009

Opposite Subduction Polarity in Adjacent Plate Segments

scholarly article by Mireia Peral et al published September 2018 in Tectonics

Paleoclimate reconstruction during the Messinian evaporative drawdown of the Mediterranean Basin: Insights from microthermometry on halite fluid inclusions

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Paleomagnetic evidence for no tectonic rotation of the central Italy Tyrrhenian Margin since Upper Pliocene

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Plate motions, Andean orogeny, and volcanism above the South Atlantic convection cell

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Recent extension driven by mantle upwelling beneath the Admiralty Mountains (East Antarctica)

article published in 2008

Reply to the comment by G. Capponi et al. on “Subduction polarity reversal at the junction between the Western Alps and the Northern Apennines, Italy”, by G. Vignaroli et al. (Tectonophysics, 2008, 450, 34–50)

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Retrogressive fabric development during exhumation of the Voltri Massif (Ligurian Alps, Italy): arguments for an extensional origin and implications for the Alps–Apennines linkage

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Rheological properties of paraffin as an analogue material for viscous crustal deformation

Role of the backstop-to-cover thickness ratio on vergence partitioning in experimental thrust wedges

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Shaping mobile belts by small-scale convection

scientific article published in Nature

Slab disruption, mantle circulation, and the opening of the Tyrrhenian basins

Spatio-temporal evolution of intraplate strike-slip faulting: The Neogene–Quaternary Kuh-e-Faghan Fault, central Iran

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Spreading pulses of the Tyrrhenian Sea during the narrowing of the Calabrian slab

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Static and dynamic support of western United States topography

scholarly article by Thorsten W. Becker et al published September 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Subduction and the depth of convection in the Mediterranean mantle

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Subduction induced mantle flow: Length-scales and orientation of the toroidal cell

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Subduction polarity reversal at the junction between the Western Alps and the Northern Apennines, Italy

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Subduction system and flat slab beneath the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

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Subduction zone interaction: Controls on arcuate belts

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Subduction zones interaction around the Adria microplate and the origin of the Apenninic arc

scholarly article by Ágnes Király et al published 9 October 2018 in Tectonics

Subduction, convergence and the mode of backarc extension in the Mediterranean region

Subduction-triggered magmatic pulses: A new class of plumes?

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Syn- versus post-orogenic extension: the case study of Giglio Island (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

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TOPO-EUROPE: Studying continental topography and Deep Earth—Surface processes in 4D

TOPO-EUROPE: The Geoscience of coupled

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Tethyan closure, Andean orogeny, and westward drift of the Pacific Basin

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article by Claudio Faccenna et al published November 2019 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

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article by Claudio Faccenna et al published March 2020 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

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article by Claudio Faccenna et al published March 2021 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

The Gediz Supradetachment System (SW Turkey): Magmatism, Tectonics, and Sedimentation During Crustal Extension

scientific article published in 2019

The Italian Journal of Geosciences is increasing its appeal among Geoscientists

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The influence of backstop dip and convergence velocity in the growth of viscous doubly-vergent orogenic wedges: insights from thermomechanical laboratory experiments

The influence of pre-existing thrust faults on normal fault geometry in nature and in experiments

scientific article published in August 1995

The kinematics of back-arc basins, examples from the Tyrrhenian, Aegean and Japan Seas

scholarly article by Laurent Jolivet et al published 1999 in Geological Society Special Publication

The long‐term evolution of the Doruneh Fault region (Central Iran): A key to understanding the spatio‐temporal tectonic evolution in the hinterland of the Zagros convergence zone

scientific article published in 2018

The two-stage Aegean extension, from localized to distributed, a result of slab rollback acceleration

scientific article published in November 2016

Topographic Fingerprint of Deep Mantle Subduction

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Uplift history of the Sila Massif, southern Italy, deciphered from cosmogenic10Be erosion rates and river longitudinal profile analysis

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Vertical GPS ground motion rates in the Euro-Mediterranean region: New evidence of velocity gradients at different spatial scales along the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary

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Western US intermountain seismicity caused by changes in upper mantle flow

scientific article published in August 2015

What drives tectonic plates?

scientific article published on 30 October 2019