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Magaz García, Antonio Rafael, José Ramón Hernández Santana, Jorge Luis Díaz Díaz, and Idania Hernández Guerrero. "Formación y consolidación de las morfoestructuras septentrionales de la región central del archipiélago cubano y su geodinámica reciente." Investigaciones Geográficas, no. 61 (February 15, 2012): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.14350/rig.29992.

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La región septentrional del territorio central cubano constituye un prisma acrecionario del Cretácico Cenomaniense-Eoceno superior temprano, compuesto por la imbricación del margen continental de Bahamas, de fragmentos de corteza oceánica antigua y de restos del arco volcánico cretácico. La formación y consolidación morfoestructural del relieve actual responde a dos etapas principales del desarrollo geotectónico, una de compresión tangencial, laramídico, de grandes desplazamientos horizontales, y otra de reordenación neotectónica de la estructura y del paleorrelieve alpino, con predominio de m

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Winterle, Alberto. "Leggere le Alpi / Reading the Alps." Regionalità e produzione architettonica contemporanea nelle Alpi, no. 1 ns, november 2018 (November 15, 2018): 202–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.30682/aa1801v.

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Living a place means first of all reading it, understanding it, assimilating it. This is even more evident in the case of a particular natural environment where the possibilities of land use are limited. Looking at a map of the Alps, it becomes clear how the morphology has conditioned the methods of settlement and exploitation of the places. In an attempt to read and interpret the transformation of the Alpine territories, the Architetti Arco Alpino association has initiated a review of projects, from which it emerges that today there exist very different cultural, political, social and economi

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Authors, The. "Short Communications." Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia 84, no. 1 (2015): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rio.2014.228.

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<p><strong>Overwintering of Crane, Grus grus, within the Alpine arch </strong></p><p><strong>Prima nidificazione accertata di assiolo Otus scops in provincia di Varese</strong></p>

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Li, Zhiqiang, Jinpeng Zhao, Lulu Liu, and Zhe Li. "Experimental Study on Freezing Front Model of Alpine Tunnel under Wind Field." Applied Sciences 13, no. 2 (2023): 824. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13020824.

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In order to study the freezing front characteristics of alpine tunnels under the condition of wind flow field and relying on the Osaka Mountain tunnel in Qinghai Province, the physical model test of an alpine tunnel was built. By using the Surfer software combined with the laboratory test data, the radial and longitudinal temperature variation trends of the tunnel were obtained, and the overall temperature vector graph of the tunnel was simulated; the radial and longitudinal evolutionary laws of a freezing front in an alpine tunnel under airflow conditions were systematically analyzed, and the

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Bergman, I., L. Liedgren, L. Ostlund, and O. Zackrisson. "Kinship and Settlements: Sami Residence Patterns in the Fennoscandian Alpine Areas around A.D. 1000." Arctic Anthropology 45, no. 1 (2008): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arc.0.0005.

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Radziewanowski, Zbigniew. "The cultural values of architectural form in terms of current conditions of building technologies including prefabricated buildings." Budownictwo i Architektura 13, no. 3 (2014): 325–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/bud-arch.1838.

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The present article concerns the problem of the contradiction between striving to maintain in the designed and implemented buildings of large volume in Polish area around the Tatras, in which it is justified to use current building technologies, including prefabricated buildings construction methods, and the need to continue the characteristic architectural forms of Tatra region. The demonstrated examples of architectural formation of buildings constructed during the interwar period-made for the needs of International Winter Olympics FIS, they used of the typical patterns of farms for the Alpi

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Masini, Federico, and Sandro Lovari. "Systematics, Phylogenetic Relationships, and Dispersal of the Chamois (Rupicapra spp.)." Quaternary Research 30, no. 3 (1988): 339–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(88)90009-9.

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The Rupicaprini originated during the Miocene in Asia and dispersed during the late Miocene-early Pliocene, the Villafranchian, and the middle Pleistocene. Rupicapra and Oreamnos spread respectively to Europe and to North America in the middle Pleistocene. The Villafranchian Procamptoceras may be considered to be the closest known form to Rupicapra's ancestor. Rupicapra evolved during the middle and late Pleistocene in west Eurasia. At the beginning of the Würm glaciation the two closely related species R. pyrenaica and R. rupicapra were in existence. The former was already geographically spli

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Shi, Li, Ying Zhang, Peng Huang, and Shengjie Di. "Research on the Effect of Under-Aged Concrete Arch Grouting for Ultra-High Arch Dam in Alpine-Cold Region." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 580 (November 7, 2020): 012089. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/580/1/012089.

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Mauder, M., E. Ntoutsi, P. Kröger, et al. "Significance and Limitations of Stable Oxygen Isotope Ratios in the Apatite Phosphate of Archaeological Vertebrate Finds for Provenance Analysis in an Alpine Reference Region." Archaeometry 61, no. 1 (2018): 194–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12399.

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Tschetsch, L., A. Mussauer, M. Mauder, et al. "Multi‐isotope fingerprints (O, Sr and Pb) in archaeological animal bone bioapatite: Similarity search and the suitability for provenance analysis in a geologically complex Alpine region." Archaeometry 62, S1 (2020): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12550.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Arco Alpino"

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Roncador, Rosa <1976&gt. "Celti e Reti tra V e I sec. a.C. Oggetti tipo LaTène all'interno della cerchia culturale Fritzens-Sanzeno (arco alpino centro-orientale)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4127/1/Roncador_Rosa_tesi.pdf.

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The study of the objects LaTène type found in middle-eastern alpine region (Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol, Engadina, North Tirol, Voralberg and Villach basin) is aimed to a better comprehension of the complex net of relationships established among the Celts, settled both in the central Europe territories and, since the IV century b.C., in the Po Plain, and the local populations. The ancient authors, who called the inhabitants of this area Raeti, propose for this territory the usual pattern according to which, the population of a region was formed consequently to a migration or was caused by th

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Roncador, Rosa <1976&gt. "Celti e Reti tra V e I sec. a.C. Oggetti tipo LaTène all'interno della cerchia culturale Fritzens-Sanzeno (arco alpino centro-orientale)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4127/.

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The study of the objects LaTène type found in middle-eastern alpine region (Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol, Engadina, North Tirol, Voralberg and Villach basin) is aimed to a better comprehension of the complex net of relationships established among the Celts, settled both in the central Europe territories and, since the IV century b.C., in the Po Plain, and the local populations. The ancient authors, who called the inhabitants of this area Raeti, propose for this territory the usual pattern according to which, the population of a region was formed consequently to a migration or was caused by th

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Jiménez, Moreno Gonzalo. "Utilizacion del analisis polinico para la reconstruccion de la vegetacion, clima y estimacion de paleoaltitudes a lo largo del arco alpino europeo durante el Mioceno (21-8 m. A. )." Lyon 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005LYO10057.

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Une étude palynologique a été conduite sur de nombreuses localités du Miocène (21-8 Ma) de l'arc alpin européen, avec comme objectif principal la reconstitution de la végétation et, en conséquence, du climat et de son évolution. Une dégradation de la végétation et du climat, confirmée par la quantification des paramètres climatiques à partir des données polliniques, a été observée au cours du Miocène en Europe et interprétée comme la conséquence du refroidissement climatique progressif survenu sous l'effet conjoint d'une glaciation antarctique et de la surrection alpine. On a pu caractériser à

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Ruotsalainen, A. L. (Anna Liisa). "Mycorrhizal colonization and plant performance in arcto-alpine conditions." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2003. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514269888.

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Abstract Mycorrhizal symbiosis is generally advantageous for plants in nutrient-poor soils. Arcto-alpine areas are relatively nutrient-poor, but abundantly inhabited by non-mycorrhizal species. Possibly, mycorrhizal symbiosis is not favoured due to the harsh climatic conditions and the short growing season, which constrain the photosynthetic gain and growth of the arcto-alpine plants. This hypothesis was theoretically evaluated by assuming that optimal mycorrhizal colonization maximizes the net carbon gain of the host plant. In addition, the prevalence of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and dark-s

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Ruotsalainen, Anna Liisa. "Mycorrhizal colonization and plant performance in arcto-alpine conditions /." Oulu [Finland] : Oulun Yliopisto, 2003. http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514269888/html/index.html.

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Weston, Peter John. "The origin and kinematics of the Alpine arc." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253478.

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Marnezy, Alain. "L'Arc et sa vallée : anthropisation et géodynamique d'une rivière alpine dans son bassin versant." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999GRE10013.

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L'Arc en Maurienne (Savoie) présente à l'état naturel tous les caractères d'une rivière torrentielle à forte pente, à l'hydrologie contrastée, aux transports solides abondants. Depuis le XIX siècle, des interventions anthropiques massives ont transformé profondément le fonctionnement du système fluvial : un endiguement insubmersible sur les deux tiers du cours d'eau, l'assainissement de la basse vallée par colmatage et drainage, des travaux de correction torrentielle dans les bassins versants affluents, le développement des équipements hydroélectriques. Maîtrisé, l'Arc est à l'origine de la tr

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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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Beucher, Romain. "Evolution Néogène de l'arc~alpin~sud-occidental: Approches sismotectonique et thermochronologique." Phd thesis, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00444816.

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Cette thèse cible l'évolution Néogène de la branche sud de l'arc alpin occidental. Une approche multi-méthodes associant études de terrain, sismotectonique et thermochronologie basse température y met en évidence un régime tectonique complexe ainsi qu'une évolution morphologique et structurale originale au sein de l'arc. La fracturation s'organise autour d'un faisceau d'accidents NW-SE, à jeu principalement dextre, accompagnant la courbure de l'arc et commandant structure et morphologie. Par ailleurs, à l'échelle des massifs, une structuration en failles normales conjuguées NE-SW traduit une e

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Aillères, Laurent. "Structure et cinématique de la zone houillère briançonnaise entre Arc et Isère (Alpes francaises) : apport de l'inversion des données de la déformation finie aux modèles cinématiques classiques." Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 1996. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/INPL_T_1996_AILLERES_L.pdf.

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A partir de nouvelles observations structurales, nous proposons un nouveau modèle cinématique pour la Zone Houillère Briançonnaise, située au-dessus du front briançonnais (structure majeure des Alpes occidentales). Ce modèle est conforté par l'inversion des données de déformation finie, interpolées et visualisées à l'aide du modeleur 3D GOCAD (ENSG-LIAD Nancy). Les données de déformation finie ont été acquises par l'utilisation d'algorithmes d'analyse d'images, semi-automatisées au cours de ce travail. L'inversion a été effectuée à l'aide du logiciel FaultPack (Université Rennes 1). Le modèle

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Books on the topic "Arco Alpino"

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Centro di antichità altoadriatiche (Aquileia, Italy) and Settimana di studi aquileiesi (39th : 2008 : Aquileia, Italy), eds. Aspetti e problemi della romanizzazione: Venetia, Histria e arco alpino orientale. Editreg, 2009.

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Cuscito, Giuseppe. Aspetti e problemi della romanizzazione: Venetia, Histria e arco alpino orientale. Editreg, 2009.

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Orlando, Petrini, Laursen Gary A, and International Symposium on Arcto-Alpine Mycology. (4th : 1992 : Lanslebourg, France), eds. Arctic and alpine mycology 3-4: Proceedings of the third and fourth International Symposium on Arcto-Alpine Mycology. J. Cramer, 1993.

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International Symposium on Arcto-Alpine Mycology (5th 1996 Labytnangi, Russia). Arctic and alpine mycology 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Arcto-Alpine Mycology, Labytnangi, Russia, August 15-27, 1996 = Arkticheskai︠a︡ i aʹlpiĭskai︠a︡ mikologii︠a︡ 5. Редактори Knudsen Henning, Mukhin Victor та Institut ėkologii rasteniĭ i zhivotnykh (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk). Yekaterinburg Publishers, 1998.

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Leaver, Noel H. An exhibition of watercolours by Noel H. Leaver, ARCA at the Alpine Club Gallery ... London ... Monday 13th-Saturday18th October .... Mangate Gallery, 1986.

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Dolce felice notte--: I Sacri canti di Giovanni Battista Michi (Tesero, 1651-1690) e i canti di questua natalizio-epifanici nell' arco alpino, dal Concilio di Trento alla tradizione orale contamporanea. Giunta della Provincia autonoma di Trento, 2001.

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Arctic & Alpine Mycology, Volume 5 : Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Arcto-Alpine Mycology. Trans-Atl, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Arco Alpino"

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Gravela, Marta. "Prima dei Tuchini. Fedeltà di parte e comunità nelle valli del Canavese (Piemonte, secolo XIV)." In La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 3 L’azione politica locale. Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4.03.

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Famous for the late 14th-century revolt known as Tuchinaggio, the Canavese area, in north-western Piedmont, provides significant information concerning the relationship between lords and subjects in a longer time span. By analysing a wide range of sources (pastoral visitations, chronicles, court and notarial records, statutes), the essay examines the domini-homines dialectic in the first half of the 14th century: in the Canavese Alpine valleys various degrees of institutional consolidation of communities can be outlined, identifying a process of growth common to communities in the entire Alpine Arc.

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Svalova, Valentina. "Geothermics and Geodynamics of the Back-Arc Basins of the Alpine and Pacific Belts." In Heat-Mass Transfer and Geodynamics of the Lithosphere. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63571-8_23.

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Charvet, Jacques, Michel Faure, Martial Caridroit, and André Guidi. "Some Tectonic and Tectogenetic Aspects of SW Japan: An Alpine-Type Orogen in an Island-Arc Position." In Formation of Active Ocean Margins. Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4720-7_35.

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DEBELMAS, Jacques. "The Western Alpine Arc : New Data and Hypothesis." In Developments in Geotectonics. Elsevier, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-42688-8.50015-1.

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Demoulin, Alain. "Tectonic Evolution, Geology, and Geomorphology." In The Physical Geography of Western Europe. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277759.003.0010.

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The present-day major relief features of western Europe are to a great extent determined by the underlying geological structures, either passively or actively. To get a comprehensive picture of their morphological evolution and interrelations, this chapter provides an overview of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the larg-escale tectonic framework of the continent. After having described the west European landscape at the end of the Palaeozoic, to which time the oldest preserved landforms date back, an outline of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic history of the major tectonic domains follows. Finally, some denudation estimates highlighting the relationship between tectonics, erosion, and the resulting relief, will be discussed. The three main influences on the present-day topographic patterns are those of the Alpine orogeny, the Cenozoic West European rifting, and the imprint of Variscan structures. They combine within a regional stress field determined by the Africa–Eurasia collision and the Alpine push as well as the mid-Atlantic ridge push. Since the end of the Miocene, this stress field is characterized by a fan-shaped distribution of SHmax along the northern border of the Alpine arc. This gives way to a more consistent NW–SE to NNW–SSE direction of compression further from the chain (Bergerat 1987; Müller et al. 1992). Topographically, western Europe may be roughly divided into a series of belts parallel to the Alpine chain. The Alpine chain culminates in a number of peaks exceeding 4,000 m in elevation (4,810 m at Mont Blanc) but the average altitude is in the order of 2,000 m. To the north, the mountainous Alps are bordered by the Molasse foredeep basin whose surface makes an inclined plane descending northwards from c.1,000 m to c.300 m near the Donau River in the Regensburg-Passau area. To the north-west, the Molasse basin narrows between the Alps and the Jura Mountains and is occupied by several extended lakes inherited from Quaternary glacial activity. Next to the Molasse basin in the north and west is a wide belt of recently more or less uplifted areas between 200 and 1,000 m in elevation (and locally in excess of 1,000 m in the French Massif Central and the Bohemian massif).

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Shimabukuro, David H., and Claire Battistella. "Ligurian hyperextended continental margin preserved in an ophiolitic block at Timpa di Pietrasasso, Calabrian Arc, southern Italy." In From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid: Honoring the Career of Walter Alvarez. Geological Society of America, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2022.2557(10).

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ABSTRACT The Cenozoic accretionary complex in the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy, contains hectometric- to kilometric-scale exposures of basalt, gabbro, and serpentinite that have been interpreted as dismembered fragments of Alpine Tethys ocean crust because of their incomplete nature with respect to the traditional view of a complete ophiolite sequence. We present new geologic mapping, geochemistry, and geochronology of one of these units at Timpa di Pietrasasso near the town of Terranova di Pollino in the Basilicata region that exposes Jurassic Tethyan pillow basalt and chert that are separated from gabbro and serpentinite by a fault. The gabbro in the footwall is Permian in age, indicated by U-Pb zircon ages of 284 ± 6 Ma, 293 ± 6 Ma, and 295 ± 4 Ma, linking it to gabbros that underplated continental crust after the Permo-Carboniferous Variscan Orogeny. The gabbro first underwent amphibolite-facies metamorphism, then developed a greenschist-facies mylonitic foliation near the fault surface that is crosscut by undeformed Jurassic-aged dikes of Tethyan origin, indicating that deformation is early Tethyan or pre-Tethyan in age. The underlying serpentinite is tectonically interleaved with blocks of Variscan lower crust, indicating that the missing upper plate of the extensional detachment complex was continental in origin. These features indicate that the Timpa di Pietrasasso unit preserves a low-angle detachment fault that developed in a hyperextended continental margin of the Alpine Tethys.

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MUELLER, S., and G. F. PANZA. "Evidence of a Deep-Reaching Lithospheric Root Under the Alpine Arc." In Developments in Geotectonics. Elsevier, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-42688-8.50010-2.

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Sharkov, Evgenii, and Valentina Svalov. "Geological-Geomechanical Simulation of the Late Cenozoic Geodynamics in the Alpine-Mediterranean Mobile Belt." In New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - General Problems, Sedimentary Basins and Island Arcs. InTech, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/25250.

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Wakabayashi, John, and David H. Shimabukuro. "The contrasting geologic record of inferred “hot” intraoceanic and “cold” continental margin subduction initiation." In From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid: Honoring the Career of Walter Alvarez. Geological Society of America, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2022.2557(11).

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ABSTRACT Two contrasting field relationships may reflect different tectonic settings of subduction initiation preserved in orogenic belts. “Hot” subduction initiation assemblages include a large ophiolite unit (up to kms thick, extending tens to hundreds of km along strike) with supra subduction zone (SSZ) geochemical affinity that structurally overlies a thin (&lt;500 m thick) sheet of high-pressure (HP), high-temperature (HT), primarily metamafic rocks called a metamorphic sole. The ophiolite generally lacks burial metamorphism and includes variably serpentinized peridotite at its base. The sole structurally overlies subduction complex rocks made up of oceanic materials (igneous part of oceanic crust and overlying pelagic sedimentary rocks, and clastic sedimentary rocks of trench fill affinity) and/or passive margin assemblages; some of the subduction complex may be metamorphosed under HP-low temperature (LT) conditions (such as blueschist facies). The field relationships suggest initiation of subduction within young (&lt;15 My) and “hot” oceanic lithosphere and that the sole represents the first slice(s) of material transferred from the subducting to upper plate. Examples include the Neotethyan and northern Appalachian ophiolites and units beneath them, and the Coast Range ophiolite and subjacent Franciscan subduction complex of California. “Cold” subduction initiation assemblages lack SSZ ophiolite and island arc components and a metamorphic sole. Instead, the upper plate above the subduction complex is made up of continental lithosphere that last experienced significant heating during a passive-margin forming rift event. The protoliths of the rocks subducted were &gt;70 My in age at the time of subduction initiation. The HP-LT subduction complex is composed of slices of continental crust and oceanic crust representing parts of a hyperextended continental margin. These field relationships suggest initiation of subduction along a continental margin within old (“cold”) hyperextended continental lithosphere. Examples include the Apennine subduction zone, exposed in Calabria, Italy, and the Alpine orogenic belt, both remnants of the Alpine Tethys.

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Mather, Anne. "Tectonic Setting and Landscape Development." In The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199268030.003.0011.

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The Mediterranean is the westernmost part of the global-scale Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt which stretches from Spain to New Zealand. The landscapes of the region have a long and complex history that includes both horizontal and vertical crustal movements and the creation and destruction of oceans. This began with the break up of the super-continent Pangea around 250 Ma, which generated the Tethys Ocean—the forerunner to the present-day Mediterranean Sea. Collision of the African and European tectonic plates over the last 30 Ma led to the destruction of the Tethys Ocean, although a few remnants of its geology are preserved within the eastern Mediterranean. It is the collision of Africa and Eurasia, and the associated tectonics that have been largely responsible for generating the Mediterranean Sea, its subsequent history, and the landscapes that surround it. This collisional history progressively reduced the connectivity of the Mediterranean Sea with surrounding marine bodies by closing and restricting marine gateways. During the Miocene, for example, the Mediterranean basin became completely isolated from surrounding marine bodies in what is known as the ‘Messinian Salinity Crisis’. This period saw major changes to the regional water balance leading to evaporation and draw-down of the Mediterranean Sea. This had profound impacts on all aspects of the physical geography of the region including the climatology, biogeography, and geomorphology and its legacy can be seen across the region today. The more recent Quaternary geodynamics of the Mediterranean have generated an area which includes a complex mixture of zones of plate subduction of various ages and stages (Figure 1.1b). The modern Mediterranean includes zones of active subduction associated with volcanic activity—such as the Calabrian arc—and older zones of now quiescent subduction such as the Betic-Rif arc. There is a wide range of seismic activity associated with these regions from deep (600 km) to shallow (<50 km) and ranging in magnitude up to 8.0Mw (earthquake moment magnitude; a quantitative and physically based scale for measuring earthquakes).

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