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Journal articles on the topic "Western Mediterranean; Alpine orogenic belts"

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Siamak, Mansouri Far. "Geothermal field of the transition area between the Anatolian Plate and the East European Platform." Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology, no. 2 (November 29, 2019): 133–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.33581/2521-6740-2019-2-133-148.

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Heat flow data from the Eastern Mediterranean region indicates an extensive province of low heat flow, spreading over the whole basin of the Mediterranean to the east of Crete (Levantine Sea), Cyprus, and Northern Egypt. Surface geology of East Anatolia is complex because of recent active tectonic and volcanic activity. The region is composed of major tectonic units of Pontides, the Anatolid-Tauride Belt and Bitlis Suture Zone, North and East Anatolian faults. Ophiolitic and young volcanic rocks can be observed in many parts of East Anatolia. The Black Sea is surrounded by the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt of Crimea, Greater Caucasus, Pontides, Rhodope-Stranja Massif, Eastern Srednegorie, North Dobrogea and older tectonic units of different origins and ages such as the Precambrian East European Craton, Moesian Platform, Istanbul Zone and Adzhar-Trialet Folded System. Low heat flow density dominates in the Black Sea. The lowest (less•30 mW/m2 ) values have been recorded in central parts of the Western and Eastern Black Sea basins with maximal sedimentary thickness. Geothermal studies within the territories of Ukraine have been under way since sixties. Many important features of the thermal field remain unstudied. This applies in particular to the Ukrainian Shield and to the southern part of the Carpathian region. In general, the territory of Alpine folding within Turkey, Marmara and Aegean seas, Caucasus is characterized by high heat flow. The anomaly of its highest values (above 100 –150 mW/m2 ) exists within western Turkey, where tectonic conditions of extension prevail and underground steam is used to produce electricity. Three heat flow density profiles crossing the studied region and heat flow map were compiled.

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De Capoa, Paola. "Biostratigraphic constraints for the paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of the Alpine Central-Western Mediterranean orogenic belt (Betic, Maghrebian and Apenninic chains)." Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, Vol. 25 (April 16, 2013): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3301/rol.2013.04.

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Doblas, Miguel, and Roberto Oyarzun. "Neogene extensional collapse in the western Mediterranean (Betic-Rif Alpine orogenic belt): Implications for the genesis of the Gilbraltar Arc and magmatic activity." Geology 17, no. 5 (1989): 430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1989)017<0430:necitw>2.3.co;2.

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de Lamotte, Dominique Frizon, Jean-Claude Guezou, Jean Andrieux, Marie-Anne Albertini, Michel Coulon, André Poisson, Miguel Doblas, and Roberto Oyarzun. "Comment and Reply on "Neogene extensional collapse in the western Mediterranean (Betic-Rif Alpine orogenic belt): Implications for the genesis of the Gibraltar Arc and magmatic activity"." Geology 18, no. 4 (1990): 381. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1990)018<0381:carone>2.3.co;2.

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Le Breton, Eline, Sascha Brune, Kamil Ustaszewski, Sabin Zahirovic, Maria Seton, and R. Dietmar Müller. "Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps." Solid Earth 12, no. 4 (April 21, 2021): 885–913. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-12-885-2021.

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Abstract. Assessing the size of a former ocean of which only remnants are found in mountain belts is challenging but crucial to understanding subduction and exhumation processes. Here we present new constraints on the opening and width of the Piemont–Liguria (PL) Ocean, known as the Alpine Tethys together with the Valais Basin. We use a regional tectonic reconstruction of the Western Mediterranean–Alpine area, implemented into a global plate motion model with lithospheric deformation, and 2D thermo-mechanical modeling of the rifting phase to test our kinematic reconstructions for geodynamic consistency. Our model fits well with independent datasets (i.e., ages of syn-rift sediments, rift-related fault activity, and mafic rocks) and shows that, between Europe and northern Adria, the PL Basin opened in four stages: (1) rifting of the proximal continental margin in the Early Jurassic (200–180 Ma), (2) hyper-extension of the distal margin in the Early to Middle Jurassic (180–165 Ma), (3) ocean–continent transition (OCT) formation with mantle exhumation and MORB-type magmatism in the Middle–Late Jurassic (165–154 Ma), and (4) breakup and mature oceanic spreading mostly in the Late Jurassic (154–145 Ma). Spreading was slow to ultra-slow (max. 22 mm yr−1, full rate) and decreased to ∼5 mm yr−1 after 145 Ma while completely ceasing at about 130 Ma due to the motion of Iberia relative to Europe during the opening of the North Atlantic. The final width of the PL mature (“true”) oceanic crust reached a maximum of 250 km along a NW–SE transect between Europe and northwestern Adria. Plate convergence along that same transect has reached 680 km since 84 Ma (420 km between 84–35 Ma, 260 km between 35–0 Ma), which greatly exceeds the width of the ocean. We suggest that at least 63 % of the subducted and accreted material was highly thinned continental lithosphere and most of the Alpine Tethys units exhumed today derived from OCT zones. Our work highlights the significant proportion of distal rifted continental margins involved in subduction and exhumation processes and provides quantitative estimates for future geodynamic modeling and a better understanding of the Alpine Orogeny.

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Michard, André, Ahmed Chalouan, Hugues Feinberg, Bruno Goffé, and Raymond Montigny. "How does the Alpine belt end between Spain and Morocco ?" Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 173, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/173.1.3.

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Abstract The Betic-Rif arcuate mountain belt (southern Spain, northern Morocco) has been interpreted as a symmetrical collisional orogen, partly collapsed through convective removal of its lithospheric mantle root, or else as resulting of the African plate subduction beneath Iberia, with further extension due either to slab break-off or to slab retreat. In both cases, the Betic-Rif orogen would show little continuity with the western Alps. However, it can be recognized in this belt a composite orocline which includes a deformed, exotic terrane, i.e. the Alboran Terrane, thrust through oceanic/transitional crust-floored units onto two distinct plates, i.e. the Iberian and African plates. During the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, the yet undeformed Alboran Terrane was part of a larger, Alkapeca microcontinent bounded by two arms of the Tethyan-African oceanic domain, alike the Sesia-Margna Austroalpine block further to the northeast. Blueschist- and eclogite-facies metamorphism affected the Alkapeka northern margin and adjacent oceanic crust during the Late Cretaceous-Eocene interval. This testifies the occurrence of a SE-dipping subduction zone which is regarded as the SW projection of the western Alps subduction zone. During the late Eocene-Oligocene, the Alkapeca-Iberia collision triggered back-thrust tectonics, then NW-dipping subduction of the African margin beneath the Alboran Terrane. This Maghrebian-Apenninic subduction resulted in the Mediterranean basin opening, and drifting of the deformed Alkapeca fragments through slab roll back process and back-arc extension, as reported in several publications. In the Gibraltar area, the western tip of the Apenninic-Maghrebian subduction merges with that of the Alpine-Betic subduction zone, and their Neogene roll back resulted in the Alboran Terrane collage astride the Azores-Gibraltar transpressive plate boundary. Therefore, the Betic-Rif belt appears as an asymmetrical, subduction/collision orogen formed through a protracted evolution straightfully related to the Alpine-Apenninic mountain building.

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Lardeaux, Jean-Marc. "Deciphering orogeny: a metamorphic perspective Examples from European Alpine and Variscan belts." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 185, no. 5 (May 1, 2014): 281–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.185.5.281.

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AbstractIn this paper we review and discuss, in a synthetic historical way, the main results obtained on Variscan metamorphism in the French Massif Central. First, we describe the pre-orogenic architecture of the French Massif Central on the base of available lithostratigraphic and geochemical constraints. Second, we portray the progressive metamorphic evolution through time and space with the presentation of 6 metamorphic maps corresponding to critical orogenic periods, namely 430–400 Ma, 400–370 Ma, 370–360 Ma, 360–345 Ma, 340–325 Ma and 320–290 Ma. We discuss the role of multiple subductions in orogeny, the metamorphic effects of continental collision (i.e. regional development of intermediate-pressure metamorphic series) as well as the links between post-thickening tectonics and the regional development of low-pressure metamorphic series coeval with crustal partial melting. As it was the case for the western Alps, we emphasize the lack of temporal data on high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphic rocks as well as the uncertainties on the sizes of rock units that have recorded the same metamorphic history (i.e. coherent P-T-t/deformation trajectories). Finally, we underline the main differences and similarities between the metamorphic evolutions of the western Alps and the French Massif Central.

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Lardeaux, Jean-Marc. "Deciphering orogeny: a metamorphic perspective. Examples from European Alpine and Variscan belts." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 185, no. 2 (February 1, 2014): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.185.2.93.

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AbstractIn this paper we review and discuss, in a synthetic historical way, the main results obtained on Alpine metamorphism in the western Alps. First, we describe the finite metamorphic architecture of the western Alps and discuss its relationships with subduction and collision processes. Second, we portray the progressive metamorphic evolution through time and space with the presentation of 5 metamorphic maps corresponding to critical orogenic periods, namely 85-65 Ma, 60-50 Ma, 48-40 Ma, 38-33 Ma and 30-20 Ma. We underline the lack of temporal data on high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphic rocks as well as the severe uncertainties on the sizes of rock units that have recorded the same metamorphic history (i.e. coherent P-T-t/deformation trajectories). We discuss the role of subduction-driven metamorphism in ocean-derived protoliths and the conflicting models that account for the diachrony of continental subductions in the western Alps.

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Erdős, Zoltán, Ritske S. Huismans, and Peter van der Beek. "Control of increased sedimentation on orogenic fold-and-thrust belt structure – insights into the evolution of the Western Alps." Solid Earth 10, no. 2 (March 13, 2019): 391–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-10-391-2019.

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Abstract. We use two-dimensional thermomechanical models to investigate the potential role of rapid filling of foreland basins in the development of orogenic foreland fold-and-thrust belts. We focus on the extensively studied example of the Western European Alps, where a sudden increase in foreland sedimentation rate during the mid-Oligocene is well documented. Our model results indicate that such an increase in sedimentation rate will temporarily disrupt the formation of an otherwise regular, outward-propagating basement thrust-sheet sequence. The frontal basement thrust active at the time of a sudden increase in sedimentation rate remains active for a longer time and accommodates more shortening than the previous thrusts. As the propagation of deformation into the foreland fold-and-thrust belt is strongly connected to basement deformation, this transient phase appears as a period of slow migration of the distal edge of foreland deformation. The predicted pattern of foreland-basin and basement thrust-front propagation is strikingly similar to that observed in the North Alpine Foreland Basin and provides an explanation for the coeval mid-Oligocene filling of the Swiss Molasse Basin, due to increased sediment input from the Alpine orogen, and a marked decrease in thrust-front propagation rate. We also compare our results to predictions from critical-taper theory, and we conclude that they are broadly consistent even though critical-taper theory cannot be used to predict the timing and location of the formation of new basement thrusts when sedimentation is included. The evolution scenario explored here is common in orogenic foreland basins; hence, our results have broad implications for orogenic belts other than the Western Alps.

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GRANADO, P., W. THÖNY, N. CARRERA, O. GRATZER, P. STRAUSS, and J. A. MUÑOZ. "Basement-involved reactivation in foreland fold-and-thrust belts: the Alpine–Carpathian Junction (Austria)." Geological Magazine 153, no. 5-6 (February 23, 2016): 1110–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756816000066.

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AbstractThe late Eocene – early Miocene Alpine–Carpathian fold-and-thrust belt (FTB) lies in the transition between the Eastern Alps and the Western Carpathians, SE of the Bohemian crystalline massif. Our study shows the involvement of crystalline basement from the former European Jurassic continental margin in two distinct events. A first extensional event coeval with Eggerian–Karpatian (c. 28–16 Ma) thin-skinned thrusting reactivated the rift basement fault array and resulted from the large degree of lower plate bending promoted by high lateral gradients of lithospheric strength and slab pull forces. Slab break-off during the final stages of collision around Karpatian times (c. 17–16 Ma) promoted large-wavelength uplift and an excessive topographic load. This load was reduced by broadening the orogenic wedge through the reactivation of the lower-plate deep detachment beneath and ahead of the thin-skinned thrust front (with the accompanying positive inversion of the basement fault array) and ultimately, by the collapse of the hinterland summits, enhanced by transtensional faulting. Although this work specifically deals with the involvement of the basement in the Alpine–Carpathian Junction, the main conclusions are of general interest to the understanding of orogenic systems.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Western Mediterranean; Alpine orogenic belts"

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Argles, Tom. "Tectonometamorphic studies in the crustal envelope of mantle peridotites in the western Betic Cordillera, southern Spain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318812.

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Rosenbaum, Gideon. "Tectonic reconstruction of the Alpine orogen in the western Mediterranean region." Monash University, School of Geosciences, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9481.

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Books on the topic "Western Mediterranean; Alpine orogenic belts"

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Geological Society of London (Corporate Author), Integrated Basin Studies Project (Corporate Author), Bernard Durand (Editor), Laurent Jolivet (Editor), Frank Horvath (Editor), and Michel Seranne (Editor), eds. The Mediterranean Basins: Tertiary Extension Within the Alpine Orogen (Geological Society Special Publication). Geological Society of London, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Western Mediterranean; Alpine orogenic belts"

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Rosenbaum, Gideon, and Gordon S. Lister. "Formation of arcuate orogenic belts in the western Mediterranean region." In Special Paper 383: Orogenic curvature: Integrating paleomagnetic and structural analyses, 41–56. Geological Society of America, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0-8137-2383-3(2004)383[41:foaobi]2.0.co;2.

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Critelli, Salvatore, Francesco Perri, José Arribas, and Maria Josefa Herrero. "Sandstone detrital modes and diagenetic evolution of Mesozoic continental red beds from western-central circum-Mediterranean orogenic belts." In Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2018.2540(06).

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