The Campo de Dalias GNSS Network Unveils the Interaction between Roll-Back and Indentation Tectonics in the Gibraltar Arc [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 The Gibraltar Arc includes the Betic and Rif Cordilleras surrounding the Alboran Sea; it is formed at the northwest–southeast Eurasia–Nubia convergent plate boundary in the westernmost Mediterranean.
Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar +12 more
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Arc-parallel vs back-arc extension in the Western Gibraltar arc: Is the Gibraltar forearc still active? [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2012 Extremely tight arcs, framed within the Eurasia-Africa convergence region, developed during the Neogene on both sides of the western Mediterranean. A complex interplate deformation zone has been invoked to explain their structural trend-line patterns ...
J.C. BALANYÁ +6 more
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Gravitational dismantling of the Miocene mountain front of the Gibraltar Arc system deduced from the analysis of an olistostromic complex (western Betics) [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2013 A mélange complex seals the internal-external zone boundary of the western part of the Gibraltar Arc orogenic belt and constitutes a key element to establish milestones of the Betic-Rif tectonic evolution.
E. SUADES, A. CRESPO-BLANC
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Evidence of slab tearing on an inherited Mesozoic rift transfer fault in the Betic Cordillera [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Western Mediterranean has undergone complex subduction and collision between the African and Iberian plates, influenced by slab segmentation and melt generation.
Antonio Pedrera +13 more
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Mitogenomic characterization and phylogenetic placement of the Red pandora Pagellus bellottii from the Eastern Atlantic Ocean within the family Sparidae [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe systematics and conservation management of the Red pandora (Pagellus bellottii) remain challenging due to the overlapping morphology and distributions with closely related congeners in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Arief Wujdi +7 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 The origin and tectonic evolution of the Gibraltar Arc system is the result of a complex geodynamic evolution involving the convergence of the Eurasian and African plates and the dynamic impact of the Gibraltar slab.
Pedro J. Gea +5 more
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BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2021 The timing and process of exhumation of the subcontinental peridotites of the Gibraltar Arc (Ronda, Beni Bousera) have been discussed extensively over the last decades.
Farah Aboubaker +7 more
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Melt-enhanced strain localization and phase mixing in a large-scale mantle shear zone (Ronda peridotite, Spain) [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2023 Strain localization in upper-mantle shear zones by grain size reduction and the activation of grain-size-sensitive deformation mechanisms is closely linked to phase mixing.
S. Tholen +3 more
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Thermomechanical modelling of lithospheric slab tearing and its topographic response
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Lithospheric slab tearing, the process by which a subducted lithospheric plate is torn apart and sinks into the Earth’s mantle, has been proposed as a cause for surface vertical motions in excess of 100 s of meters.
Kittiphon Boonma +4 more
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Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 2021 Located at the westernmost tip of the Mediterranean, the Gibraltar Arc is a segment of the Alpine belt that exhibits peridotite massifs associated with high-grade crustal metamorphic units.
El Bakili, Asmae +5 more
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