The migration of plate boundaries in SE Sicily: Influence on the large-scale kinematic model of the African promontory in southern Italy

Tectonophysics

Volumn 449, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 41-62

  Catalano, S ^a   De Guidi, G ^a   Romagnoli, G ^a   Torrisi, S ^a   Tortorici, G ^a   Tortorici, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Kinematics; Plate boundaries; Scicli Line; Sicily

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; KINEMATICS; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; RIFTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HYBLEAN PLATEAU; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 39649099975     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Amato A., Azzara R., Basili A., Chiarabba C., Cocco M., Di Bona M., and Selvaggi G. Main shock and aftershocks of the December 13, 1990. Eastern Sicily earthquake 38 2 (1995) 255-266
2. Amato A., Montone P., and Cesaro M. State of stress in Southern Italy from borehole breakout and focal mechanism data. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22 23 (1995) 3119-3122
3. Anderson H., and Jackson J.A. Active tectonics in the Adriatic region. Geophis. J. R. Astron. Soc. 91 (1987) 937-983
4. Bassinot F.C., Labeyrie L.D., Vincent E., Quidelleur X., Shackleton N.J., and Lancelot Y. The astronomical theory of climate and the age of the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversalii. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 126 (1994) 91-108
5. Ben Avraham Z., Boccaletti M., Cello G., Grasso M., Lentini F., Torelli L., and Tortorici L. Principali domini strutturali dalla collisione continentale neogenico-quaternaria nel Mediterraneo centrale. Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital. 45 (1990) 453-462
6. Ben Avraham Z., and Grasso M. Crustal structure variations and trascurrent faulting at the eastern and western margins of the eastern Mediterranean. Tectonophyisics 196 (1990) 269-277
7. Bianca M., Monaco C., Tortorici L., and Cernobori L. Quaternary normal faulting in southeastern Sicily (Italy): a seismic source for the 1693 large earthquake. Geophys. J. Int. 139 (1999) 370-394
8. Boccaletti M., Cello G., and Tortorici L. Transtensional tectonics in the Sicily Channel. J. Struct. Geol. 9 (1987) 869-876
9. Boccaletti M., Cello G., and Tortorici L. Strike-slip deformation as a fundamental process during the Neogene-Quaternary evolution of the Tunisian-Pelagian area. Ann. Tecton. 4 (1990) 104-119
10. Boschi E., Ferrari G., Gasperini P., Guidoboni E., Smeriglio G., and Valensise G. Catalogo dei forti terremoti in Italia dal 461 a.c. al 1980 (1995), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Roma 973 pp.
11. Bousquet J.C., and Lanzafame G. Compression and Quaternary tectonic inversion on the Northern edge of the Hyblean Mountains, foreland of the Appenine-Maghrebian chain in Eastern Sicily (Italy): geodynamic implications for Mt. Etna. GeoActa 3 (2004) 165-177
12. Burollet P.F., Mugniot G.M., and Sweeney P. Geology of the Pelagian Block: the margin and basin of Southen Tunisia and Tripolitania. In: Nairn A., Kanes W., and Stelhi F.G. (Eds). The Ocean Basin and Margin (1978), Plenum, New York 331-419
13. Carbone S., Di Geronimo I., Grasso M., Iozzia S., and Lentini F. I terrazzi marini quaternari dell'area iblea (Sicilia sud-orientale). C.N.R.-Progetto finalizzato geodinamica-Sottoprogetto neotettonica. Contributi conclusivi per la realizzazione della Carta Neotettonica d'Italia. Pubbl. n. 506 (1982) 1-35
14. Catalano S., and De Guidi G. Late Quaternary uplift of northeastern Sicily: relation with the active normal faulting deformation. J. Geodyn. 36 (2003) 445-467
15. Catalano S., De Guidi G., Lanzafame G., Monaco C., Torrisi S., Sturiale G., Tortrici G., and Tortrici L. Inversione tettonica positiva tardo-quaternaria nel Plateau Ibleo (Sicilia SE). Rend. Soc. Geol. It. 2 (2006) Nuova Serie, 118-120 ff
16. Catalano, S., De Guidi, G., Monaco, C., Tortorici, G., Tortorici, L., in press. Active faulting and seismicity along the Siculo-Calabrian Rift Zone (Southern Italy). Tectonophysics, special issue "Earthquake Geology: methods and applications".
17. Catalano S., De Guidi G., Monaco C., Tortorici G., and Tortorici L. Long-term behaviour of the Late Quaternary normal faults in the Strait of Messina region: structural and morphological contraints. Quat. Int. 101-102 (2003) 81-91
18. Catalano S., Torrisi S., and Ferlito C. The relationship between Late Quaternary deformation and volcanism of Mt. Etna (eastern Sicily): new evidence from the sedimentary substratum in the Catania region. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 132 (2004) 311-334
19. Chiarabba C., Jovane L., and Di Stefano R. A new view of Italian seismicity using 20 years of instrumental recordings. Tectonophysics 395 (2005) 251-268
20. D' agostino N., and Selvaggi G. Crustal motion along the Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary in the Calabrian arc and Sicily and active extension in the Messina Straits from GPS measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 109 (2004) B11402
21. Dewey J.F., Helman M.L., Turco E., Hutton D.H.W., and Knott S.D. Kinematics of the western Mediterranean. Alpine Tectonics, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. 45 (1989) 265-283
22. Di Geronimo I., Ghisetti F., Grasso M., Lentini F., Scamarda G., and Vezzani L. Dati preliminari sulla neotettonica della Sicilia sud-orientale. Fogli 273 (Caltagirone), 274 (Siracusa), 275 (Scoglitti), 276 (Ragusa) e 277 (NOTO) (in Italian). Publication of the Progetto Finalizzato Geodinamica, Roma vol. 356 (1980) 747-773
23. Ferranti L., Monaco C., Antonioli F., Maschio L., Kershaw S., and Verrubbi V. The contribution of regional uplift and coseismic slip to the vertical crustal motion in the Messina Straits, southern Italy: evidence from raised Late Holocene shorelines. Geophys. Res. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth 112 B6 (2007) Art. No. B06401
24. Finetti I.R. Structure, stratigraphy and evolution of central Mediterranean. Boll. Geofis. Teor. Appl. 24 (1982) 247-312
25. Finetti I.R., and Del Ben A. Crustal tectono-stratigraphic setting of the Pelagian foreland from new CROP seismic data. In: Finetti I.R. (Ed). CROP PROJECT: Deep Seismic Exploration of the Central Mediterranean and Italy (1996) 581-595 Chapter 26
26. Ghisetti F., and Vezzani L. The structural features of the Hyblean Plateau and the Mount Judica area (South-Eastern Sicily): a microtectonic contribution to the deformational history of the Calabrian Arc. Boll. Soc. Geol. It. 99 (1980) 55-102
27. Ghisetti F. Upper Pliocene-Pleistocene uplift rates as indicators of neotectonic pattern: an example from southern Calabria (Italy). Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie 40 (1981) 93-118
28. Ghisetti F., and Vezzani L. Deferent styles of deformation in the Calabrian Arc (Southern Italy); implication for a sismotectonics zoning. Tectonophysics 85 (1982) 149-165
29. Grasso, M., 1999. Carta Geologica del settore centro-meridionale dell'Altopiano Ibleo (Pr. Ragusa, Sicilia sud-orientale). Scala 1:50000. S. EL. CA., Firenze.
30. Grasso M., Pedley H.M., Maniscalco R., and Ruggieri R. Geological context and explanatory notes of the Carta Geologica del settore centro-meridionale dell'Altopiano Ibleo. Mem. Sco. Geol.It. 55 (2000) 45-52
31. Grasso M., Philps B., Reuther C.D., Garofalo P., Stamilla R., Anfuso G., Donzella G., and Cultrone G. Pliocene-Pleistocene tectonics on western margin of the Hyblean plateau and the Vittoria Plain (SE Sicily). Mem. Soc. Geol. It. 55 (2000) 35-44
32. Grasso M., and Reuther C.D. The western margin of the Hyblean Plateau: a neotectonic transform system on the SE Sicilian foreland. Ann. Tecton. 2 2 (1988) 107-120
33. Grasso M., Reuther C.D., Becker A., and Baumann H. Shallow crustal stress and neotectonic framework of the Malta Platfrom and the southeastern Pantelelria Rift (Central Mediterranean). Geol. Rom. 25 (1986) 191-212
34. Hollenstein Ch., Kahle H.-G., Geiger A., Jenny S., Geos S., and Giardini D. New GPS constraints on the Africa-Europe plate boundary zone in southern Italy. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30 18 (2003) 1935
35. Illies J.H. Graben formation - the Maltese Islands: a case history. Tectonophysics 73 (1981) 151-168
36. Monaco C., Bianca M., Catalano S., De Guidi G., and Tortorici L. Sudden change in the Late Quaternary tectonic regime in eastern Sicily: evidences from geological and geomorphological features. Boll. Soc. Geol. It. 1 (2002) 901-913
37. Monaco C., Mazzoli S., and Tortorici L. Active thrust tectonics in western Sicily (Southern Italy): the 1968 Belice earthquake sequence. Terra Nova 8 (1996) 372-381
38. Monaco C., Tortorici L., Nicolich R., Cernobori L., and Costa M. From collisional to rifted basins: an example from the southern Calabrian arc (Italy). Tectonophysics 266 (1996) 233-249
39. Monaco C., Tapponnier P., Tortorici L., and Gillot P.Y. Late Quaternary slip rates on the Acireale-Piedimonte normal faults and tectonic origin of Mt. Etna (Sicily). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 147 (1997) 125-139
40. Monaco C., and Tortorici L. Active faulting in the Calabrian arc and eastern Sicily. J. Geodyn. 29 (2000) 407-424
41. Musumeci C., Patanè D., Scarfì L., and Gresta S. Stress directions and shear-wave anisotropy: observations from local earthquakes in Southeastern Sicily, Italy. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 95 4 (2005) 1359-1374
42. Pedley H.M., Grasso M., Maniscalco R., Bencke B., Di Stefano A., Giuffrida S., and Sturiale G. The sedimentology and Palaeoenvironment of Quaternary temperate carbonates and their distribution around the northern Hyblean Mountains (SE Sicily). Boll. Soc. Geol. It. 121 (2001) 233-255
43. Pondrelli S., Morelli A., and Ekström G. European-Mediterranean regional centroid moment tensor catalog: solutions for years 2001 and 2002. Phys. Earth Planet. 145 1-4 (2004) 127-147
44. Pondrelli S., Morelli A., Ekström G., Mazza S., Boschi E., and Dziewonski A.M. European-Mediterranean regional centroid-moment tensors: 1997-2000, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 130 (2002) 71-101
45. Pondrelli S., Salimbenia S., Ekström G., Morelli A., Gasperini P., and Vannucci G. The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present. Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 159 (2006) 286-303
46. Postpischl D. Catalogo dei terremoti italiani dall'anno 1000 al 1980 (1985), CNR, P.F. Geodinamica, Graficoop Bologna 239 pp.
47. Ragg S., Grasso M., and Muller B. Patterns of tectonic stress in Sicily from borehole breakout observations and finite element modelling. Tectonics 18 (1999) 669-685
48. Reuther C.D. Strike-slip generated rifting and recent tectonic stresses on the African foreland (Central Mediterranean region). Ann. tecton. 4 2 (1990) 120-130
49. Reuther C.D., and Eisbacher G.H. Pantelleria rift-crustal extension in a convergent intraplate setting. Geol. Rundsch. 74 (1985) 585-597
50. Reuther C.D., Obermeyer H., Reicherter K., Reiss S., Kaiser A., Buchmann T., Adam J., Lohrmann J., and Grasso M. Neotektinik und aktive Krustenspannungen in Sudost-Sizilien und ihre Beziehungen zur regionalen Tektonik im Zentralen Mittelmeer. Mitt. Geol.-Palont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg 86 (2002) 1-24
51. Roure F., Howel D.G., Muller C., and Moretti I. Late Cenozoic subduction complex of Sicily. J. Struct. Geol. 12 (1990) 259-266
52. Ruggieri G., Sprovieri R., and Unti M. Evidence della trasgressione dell'Emiliano (Pleistocene inferiore) nella Sicilia orientale. Boll. Soc. Geol. It. 98 (1979) 469-473
53. Serpelloni E., Vannucci G., Pondrelli S., Argnani A., Casula G., Anzidei M., Baldi P., and Gasperini I. Kinematics of the Western Africa-Eurasia plate boundary from focal mechanisms and GPS data. Geophys. J. Int. (2007) 1-20 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2007.03367.x
54. Torelli L., Grasso M., Mazzoldi G., and Peis D. Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution and structure of the Catania foredeep, the northern Hyblean Plateau and the Ionian shelf (SE Sicily). Tectonophysics 298 (1998) 209-221
55. Tortorici G., De Guidi G., and Sturiale G. Evoluzione tettonica quaternaria del margine settentrionale del Plateau Ibleo (Sicilia sud-orientale). Boll. Soc. Geol. 125 (2006) 21-37 13 ff