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Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-827-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-827-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
Research article
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15 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 15 Jul 2024

Highlights on mantle deformation beneath the Western Alps with seismic anisotropy using CIFALPS2 data

Silvia Pondrelli, Simone Salimbeni, Judith M. Confal, Marco G. Malusà, Anne Paul, Stephane Guillot, Stefano Solarino, Elena Eva, Coralie Aubert, and Liang Zhao

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We analyse and interpret seismic anisotropy from CIFALPS2 data that fill the gaps in the Western Alps and support a new hypothesis. Instead of a continuous mantle flow parallel to the belt, here we find a N–S mantle deformation pattern that merges first with a mantle deformed by slab steepening beneath the Central Alps and then merges with an asthenospheric flow sourced beneath the Massif Central. This new sketch supports the extinction of slab retreat beneath the Western Alps.
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