Puzzling features of western Mediterranean tectonics explained by slab dragging

Bounds on geologically current rates of motion of groups of hot spots

(2017) Chengzu Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Late Miocene Pacific plate kinematic change explained with coupled global models of mantle and lithosphere dynamics

(2017) I. L. Stotz et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Tearing of the mantle lithosphere along the intermediate-depth seismicity zone beneath the Gibraltar Arc: The onset of lithospheric delamination

(2017) Benjamin Heit et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Thick-skinned tectonics closing the Rifian Corridor

(2017) Walter Capella et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Evidence of quaternary transtensional tectonics in the Nekor basin (NE Morocco)

(2016) Manfred Lafosse et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Incipient mantle delamination, active tectonics and crustal thickening in Northern Morocco: Insights from gravity data and numerical modeling

(2016) Laura-May Baratin et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Constraining the crustal root geometry beneath Northern Morocco

(2016) J. Díaz et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Lithospheric deformation in the Africa-Iberia plate boundary: Improved neotectonic modeling testing a basal-driven Alboran plate

(2016) M. Neres et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The Diffuse Plate boundary of Nubia and Iberia in the Western Mediterranean: Crustal deformation evidence for viscous coupling and fragmented lithosphere

(2015) Mimmo Palano et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

(2015) Rachel Flecker et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Crustal structure and gravity anomalies beneath the Rif, northern Morocco: implications for the current tectonics of the Alboran region

(2015) Carole Petit et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Toward a generalized plate motion reference frame

(2015) T. W. Becker et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Compressional tectonic inversion of the Algero-Balearic basin: Latemost Miocene to present oblique convergence at the Palomares margin (Western Mediterranean)

(2015) Flavio Giaconia et al.   TECTONICS

Subduction and volcanism in the Iberia–North Africa collision zone from tomographic images of the upper mantle

(2015) Antonio Villaseñor et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Slab rupture and delamination under the Betics and Rif constrained from receiver functions

(2015) Flor de Lis Mancilla et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Absolute plate motions and regional subduction evolution

(2014) M. V. Chertova et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Subduction-driven recycling of continental margin lithosphere

(2014) A. Levander et al.   NATURE

Origin and consequences of western Mediterranean subduction, rollback, and slab segmentation

(2014) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   TECTONICS

Underpinning tectonic reconstructions of the western Mediterranean region with dynamic slab evolution from 3-D numerical modeling

(2014) M. V. Chertova et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Absolute plate velocities from seismic anisotropy: Importance of correlated errors

(2014) Lin Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The Betic-Rif Arc and Its Orogenic Hinterland: A Review

(2013) John P. Platt et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Evidence for slab rollback in westernmost Mediterranean from improved upper mantle imaging

(2013) M.J. Bezada et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Seismic observations of large-scale deformation at the bottom of fast-moving plates

(2013) Eric Debayle et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Delamination in the Betic Range: Deep structure, seismicity, and GPS motion

(2013) F. d. Lis Mancilla et al.   GEOLOGY

Crustal deformation in eastern Betics from CuaTeNeo GPS network

(2013) Anna Echeverria et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Along-strike translation of a fossil slab

(2012) Jacob E. Pikser et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Bridging onshore and offshore present-day kinematics of central and eastern Mediterranean: Implications for crustal dynamics and mantle flow

(2012) Eugénie Pérouse et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Neotectonics of the SW Iberia margin, Gulf of Cadiz and Alboran Sea: a reassessment including recent structural, seismic and geodetic data

(2012) T. A. Cunha et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Absolute plate motions in a reference frame defined by moving hot spots in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans

(2012) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The Gibraltar subduction: A decade of new geophysical data

(2012) M.-A. Gutscher et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tethys–Atlantic interaction along the Iberia–Africa plate boundary: The Betic–Rif orogenic system

(2012) Jaume Vergés et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

New GPS constraints on active deformation along the Africa–Iberia plate boundary

(2011) A. Koulali et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Messinian salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar arc

(2011) D. Garcia-Castellanos et al.   NATURE

Active surface deformation and sub-lithospheric processes in the western Mediterranean constrained by numerical models

(2010) Eugénie Pérouse et al.   GEOLOGY

Geologically current plate motions

(2010) Charles DeMets et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Surface deformation and slab–mantle interaction during Banda arc subduction rollback

(2010) Wim Spakman et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mechanics of fore-arc slivers: Insights from simple analog models

(2010) Saad S. B. Haq et al.   TECTONICS

Geodetic constraints on active tectonics of the Western Mediterranean: Implications for the kinematics and dynamics of the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary zone

(2009) Philippe Vernant et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Global trench migration velocities and slab migration induced upper mantle volume fluxes: Constraints to find an Earth reference frame based on minimizing viscous dissipation

(2008) W.P. Schellart et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS