Format:
Online-Ressource (VI, 253 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Earth and Environmental Science
ISBN:
9783034878999
Series Statement:
Pageoph Topical Volumes
Content:
The Azores-Tunisia region is formed by the western part of the plate boundary between Eurasia and Africa. This plate boundary presents a complex nature due to its proximity to the pole of rotation of the African plate. This condition produces crustal extensions and normal faulting at the Azores archipelago, transcurrent motion with strike slip faulting at the center part of the Azores-Gibraltar fault and at the eastern end, from the Gulf of Cadiz to Tunisia, plate convergence with reverse faulting. In this last part, the collision of Iberia with northern Morocco produces complex phenomena with intermediate depth and deep earthquakes and an extensional regime at the Alboran sea. Recently, new evidence has been gathered in this region based on observations from geology, geodesy, mainly through GPS measurements, seismology, especially with the installation of broad-band stations, and other fields of geophysics, such as paleomagnetism and gravimetry
Note:
Very fast exhumation in the Alpine belt of the Betic-Rif (W. Mediterranean) tectonic extrusion -- The Alpine-Rif belt (Morocco) -- Recent tectonic deformations and stresses in the frontal part of the Rif Cordillera and Saiss basin (Fes and Rabat regions, Morocco) -- Recent tectonic structures in a transect of the Betic Cordillera -- Neogene through Quaternary tectonic reactivation of SW Iberian passive margin -- GEOALGAR project - First results on seismicity and fault plane solutions -- The Ain Temouchent (Algeria) earthquake of 22 December 1999 -- Seismic sources in the Iberian-African plate boundary and their tectonic implications -- Calibration of local magnitude ML in the Azores Archipelago based on recent digital recording -- Crustal motion in Western Europe and the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary zone from a combination of heterogeneous geodetic solutions -- Recent geodetic results in the Azores triple junction region -- Paleomagnetic results from a cross section in the central part of the Subbetic.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783764370435
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783764370435
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783034879002
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-0348-7899-9
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Bookmarklink
