Active north-vergent thrusting in the northern Sicily continental margin in the frame of the quaternary evolution of the Sicilian collisional system

Outgassing of mantle volatiles in compressional tectonic regime away from volcanism: the role of continental delamination

(2019) Antonio Caracausi et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Thermal and structural modeling of the Scillato wedge-top basin source-to-sink system: Insights into the Sicilian fold-and-thrust belt evolution (Italy)

(2019) Martina Balestra et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

3D structural modeling and restoration of the Apennine-Maghrebian chain in Sicily: Application for non-cylindrical fold-and-thrust belts

(2019) Martina Balestra et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Recent inversion of the Tyrrhenian Basin

(2019) Nevio Zitellini et al.   GEOLOGY

Morphometric evidences of recent tectonic deformation along the southeastern margin of the Hyblean Plateau (SE-Sicily, Italy)

(2019) F. Pavano et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Deep origin of the dome‐shaped Hyblean Plateau, southeastern Sicily: A new tectono‐magmatic model

(2019) Maxime Henriquet et al.   TECTONICS

Syn-kinematic sedimentary systems as constraints on the structural response of thrust belts: re-examining the structural style of the Maghrebian thrust belt of Eastern Sicily

(2019) Robert W.H. Butler et al.   Italian Journal of Geosciences

Understanding Paleomagnetic Rotations in Sicily: Thrust Versus Strike-Slip Tectonics

(2018) Fabio Speranza et al.   TECTONICS

Slab narrowing in the Central Mediterranean: the Calabro-Ionian subduction zone as imaged by high resolution seismic tomography

(2018) L. Scarfì et al.   Scientific Reports

Towards subduction inception along the inverted North African margin of Algeria? Insights from thermo-mechanical models

(2018) Lamine Hamai et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Quaternary marine and continental unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units of the NW Sicily coastal belt

(2017) Mauro Agate et al.   Journal of Maps

Mountain building in NW Sicily from the superimposition of subsequent thrusting and folding events during Neogene: structural setting and tectonic evolution of the Kumeta and Pizzuta ridges

(2017) M. Gasparo Morticelli et al.   Journal of Maps

Lower plate serpentinite diapirism in the Calabrian Arc subduction complex

(2017) A. Polonia et al.   Nature Communications

RESEARCH FOCUS: Understanding continental subduction: A work in progress

(2016) Mihai N Ducea   GEOLOGY

Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the eastern Algerian margin and basin from seismic data and onshore-offshore correlation

(2016) Mohamed Arab et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Deep controls on foreland basin system evolution along the Sicilian fold and thrust belt

(2015) Maurizio Gasparo Morticelli et al.   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

First seismic evidence for continental subduction beneath the Western Alps

(2015) Liang Zhao et al.   GEOLOGY

Flexural behaviour of the north Algerian margin and tectonic implications

(2015) Lamine Hamai et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Middle Miocene–Early Pliocene wedge-top basins of NW Sicily (Italy): constraints for the tectonic evolution of a ‘non-conventional’ thrust belt, affected by transpression

(2014) C. Gugliotta et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

(2014) Claudio Faccenna et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Seismic imaging of subducting continental lower crust beneath the Pamir

(2013) F.M. Schneider et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Sicily’s fold–thrust belt and slab roll-back: the SI.RI.PRO. seismic crustal transect

(2013) Raimondo Catalano et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of wedge-top clastic successions: Insights and open questions from the upper Tortonian Terravecchia Formation of the Scillato Basin (central-northern Sicily, Italy)

(2013) C. Gugliotta et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Spherical projections with OSXStereonet

(2012) Nestor Cardozo et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

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

(2012) Eugenio Carminati et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Crustal structure and seismotectonics of central Sicily (southern Italy): new constraints from instrumental seismicity

(2012) Tiziana Sgroi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Vertical movements in NE Sicily and its offshore: Outcome of tectonic uplift during the last 125 ky

(2012) Attilio Sulli et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Using high-resolution stratigraphy and structural analysis to constrain polyphase tectonics in wedge-top basins: Inferences from the late Tortonian Scillato Basin (central-northern Sicily)

(2012) C. Gugliotta et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Alpine inversion of the North African margin and delamination of its continental lithosphere

(2012) François Roure et al.   TECTONICS

The tectonic puzzle of the Messina area (Southern Italy): Insights from new seismic reflection data

(2012) Carlo Doglioni et al.   Scientific Reports

Refining our knowledge of the Messinian salinity crisis records in the offshore domain through multi-site seismic analysis

(2011) J. Lofi et al.   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Recent tectonic reorganization of the Nubia-Eurasia convergent boundary heading for the closure of the western Mediterranean

(2011) A. Billi et al.   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

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

(2011) Roberto Devoti et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Coexisting tectonic settings: the example of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea

(2011) Marco Cuffaro et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Restraining stepover deformation superimposed on a previous fold-and-thrust-belt: A case study from the Mt. Kumeta–Rocca Busambra ridges (western Sicily, Italy)

(2011) Giovanni Barreca et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Thrust wedges with décollement levels and syntectonic erosion: A view from analog models

(2011) E. Konstantinovskaya et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Backthrusts and passive roof duplexes in fold-and-thrust belts

(2011) Cinzia Albanese et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological–geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps

(2010) Mark R. Handy et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Interference between shallow and deep-seated structures in the Sicilian fold and thrust belt, Italy

(2010) Giuseppe Avellone et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Sea-level changes during the last 41,000 years in the outer shelf of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea: Evidence from benthic foraminifera and seismostratigraphic analysis

(2010) Antonio Caruso et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

(2010) Andrea Billi et al.   TECTONICS

Kinematics and dynamics of the Late Quaternary rift-flank deformation in the Hyblean Plateau (SE Sicily)

(2010) S. Catalano et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

A crustal seismic profile across Sicily

(2010) Flavio Accaino et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Decoupling along plate boundaries: Key variable controlling the mode of deformation and the geometry of collisional mountain belts

(2009) Ernst Willingshofer et al.   GEOLOGY

New GPS constraints on the kinematics of the Apennines subduction

(2008) Roberto Devoti et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The southern Tyrrhenian subduction zone: Deep geometry, magmatism and Plio-Pleistocene evolution

(2008) Claudio Chiarabba et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tectonic burial and “young” (

(2008) S. Mazzoli et al.   GEOLOGY

Plio-Quaternary reactivation of the Neogene margin off NW Algiers, Algeria: The Khayr al Din bank

(2008) Abdelkarim Yelles et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Styles of post-subduction collisional orogeny: Influence of convergence velocity, crustal rheology and radiogenic heat production

(2007) Manuele Faccenda et al.   LITHOS

Continental plate collision, P–T–t–z conditions and unstable vs. stable plate dynamics: Insights from thermo-mechanical modelling

(2007) Evgene Burov et al.   LITHOS

Origination and extinction patterns of mammals in three central Western Mediterranean islands from the Late Miocene to Quaternary

(2007) Federico Masini et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL