Solid Earth
Solid Earth
Solid Earth
New insights into the tectonic evolution of the Alps and the adjacent orogens
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Special issues
New insights into the tectonic evolution of the Alps and the adjacent orogens
Editor(s): Emanuel Kästle, Mark Handy, Giancarlo Molli, Anne Paul, Claudia Piromallo, Christian Sue, Mirijam Vrabec, and CharLotte Krawczyk More information

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11 Oct 2022
Common-mode signals and vertical velocities in the greater Alpine area from GNSS data
Francesco Pintori, Enrico Serpelloni, and Adriano Gualandi
Solid Earth, 13, 1541–1567, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1541-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1541-2022, 2022
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27 Jan 2022
One-dimensional velocity structure modeling of the Earth's crust in the northwestern Dinarides
Gregor Rajh, Josip Stipčević, Mladen Živčić, Marijan Herak, and Andrej Gosar
Solid Earth, 13, 177–203, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-177-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-177-2022, 2022
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31 Jan 2022
Two subduction-related heterogeneities beneath the Eastern Alps and the Bohemian Massif imaged by high-resolution P-wave tomography
Jaroslava Plomerová, Helena Žlebčíková, György Hetényi, Luděk Vecsey, and Vladislav Babuška
Solid Earth, 13, 251–270, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-251-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-251-2022, 2022
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15 Dec 2021
Chronology of thrust propagation from an updated tectono-sedimentary framework of the Miocene molasse (western Alps)
Amir Kalifi, Philippe Hervé Leloup, Philippe Sorrel, Albert Galy, François Demory, Vincenzo Spina, Bastien Huet, Frédéric Quillévéré, Frédéric Ricciardi, Daniel Michoux, Kilian Lecacheur, Romain Grime, Bernard Pittet, and Jean-Loup Rubino
Solid Earth, 12, 2735–2771, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2735-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2735-2021, 2021
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23 Nov 2021
Miocene high elevation in the Central Alps
Emilija Krsnik, Katharina Methner, Marion Campani, Svetlana Botsyun, Sebastian G. Mutz, Todd A. Ehlers, Oliver Kempf, Jens Fiebig, Fritz Schlunegger, and Andreas Mulch
Solid Earth, 12, 2615–2631, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2615-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2615-2021, 2021
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25 Nov 2021
Orogenic lithosphere and slabs in the greater Alpine area – interpretations based on teleseismic P-wave tomography
Mark R. Handy, Stefan M. Schmid, Marcel Paffrath, and Wolfgang Friederich
Solid Earth, 12, 2633–2669, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2633-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2633-2021, 2021
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19 Nov 2021
3D crustal structure of the Ligurian Basin revealed by surface wave tomography using ocean bottom seismometer data
Felix N. Wolf, Dietrich Lange, Anke Dannowski, Martin Thorwart, Wayne Crawford, Lars Wiesenberg, Ingo Grevemeyer, and Heidrun Kopp
Solid Earth, 12, 2597–2613, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2597-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2597-2021, 2021
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25 Nov 2021
Imaging structure and geometry of slabs in the greater Alpine area – a P-wave travel-time tomography using AlpArray Seismic Network data
Marcel Paffrath, Wolfgang Friederich, Stefan M. Schmid, and Mark R. Handy
Solid Earth, 12, 2671–2702, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2671-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2671-2021, 2021
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04 Nov 2021
Moho and uppermost mantle structure in the Alpine area from S-to-P converted waves
Rainer Kind, Stefan M. Schmid, Xiaohui Yuan, Benjamin Heit, and Thomas Meier
Solid Earth, 12, 2503–2521, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2503-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2503-2021, 2021
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12 Oct 2021
Elastic anisotropies of deformed upper crustal rocks in the Alps
Ruth Keppler, Roman Vasin, Michael Stipp, Tomás Lokajícek, Matej Petruzálek, and Nikolaus Froitzheim
Solid Earth, 12, 2303–2326, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2303-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2303-2021, 2021
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15 Jun 2021
Neogene kinematics of the Giudicarie Belt and eastern Southern Alpine orogenic front (northern Italy)
Vincent F. Verwater, Eline Le Breton, Mark R. Handy, Vincenzo Picotti, Azam Jozi Najafabadi, and Christian Haberland
Solid Earth, 12, 1309–1334, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1309-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1309-2021, 2021
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10 Aug 2021
Buoyancy versus shear forces in building orogenic wedges
Lorenzo G. Candioti, Thibault Duretz, Evangelos Moulas, and Stefan M. Schmalholz
Solid Earth, 12, 1749–1775, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1749-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1749-2021, 2021
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02 Jun 2021
Regional centroid moment tensor inversion of small to moderate earthquakes in the Alps using the dense AlpArray seismic network: challenges and seismotectonic insights
Gesa Maria Petersen, Simone Cesca, Sebastian Heimann, Peter Niemz, Torsten Dahm, Daniela Kühn, Jörn Kummerow, and Thomas Plenefisch
Solid Earth, 12, 1233–1257, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1233-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1233-2021, 2021
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04 Oct 2021
Holocene surface-rupturing earthquakes on the Dinaric Fault System, western Slovenia
Christoph Grützner, Simone Aschenbrenner, Petra Jamšek Rupnik, Klaus Reicherter, Nour Saifelislam, Blaž Vičič, Marko Vrabec, Julian Welte, and Kamil Ustaszewski
Solid Earth, 12, 2211–2234, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2211-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2211-2021, 2021
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12 Nov 2021
Basin inversion: reactivated rift structures in the central Ligurian Sea revealed using ocean bottom seismometers
Martin Thorwart, Anke Dannowski, Ingo Grevemeyer, Dietrich Lange, Heidrun Kopp, Florian Petersen, Wayne C. Crawford, and Anne Paul
Solid Earth, 12, 2553–2571, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2553-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2553-2021, 2021
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13 Aug 2021
Elastic anisotropies of rocks in a subduction and exhumation setting
Michael J. Schmidtke, Ruth Keppler, Jacek Kossak-Glowczewski, Nikolaus Froitzheim, and Michael Stipp
Solid Earth, 12, 1801–1828, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1801-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1801-2021, 2021
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20 Jul 2021
Teleseismic P waves at the AlpArray seismic network: wave fronts, absolute travel times and travel-time residuals
Marcel Paffrath and Wolfgang Friederich
Solid Earth, 12, 1635–1660, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1635-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1635-2021, 2021
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21 Jul 2021
Present-day geodynamics of the Western Alps: new insights from earthquake mechanisms
Marguerite Mathey, Christian Sue, Colin Pagani, Stéphane Baize, Andrea Walpersdorf, Thomas Bodin, Laurent Husson, Estelle Hannouz, and Bertrand Potin
Solid Earth, 12, 1661–1681, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1661-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1661-2021, 2021
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19 May 2021
Relocation of earthquakes in the southern and eastern Alps (Austria, Italy) recorded by the dense, temporary SWATH-D network using a Markov chain Monte Carlo inversion
Azam Jozi Najafabadi, Christian Haberland, Trond Ryberg, Vincent F. Verwater, Eline Le Breton, Mark R. Handy, and Michael Weber
Solid Earth, 12, 1087–1109, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1087-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1087-2021, 2021
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27 May 2021
Moho topography beneath the European Eastern Alps by global-phase seismic interferometry
Irene Bianchi, Elmer Ruigrok, Anne Obermann, and Edi Kissling
Solid Earth, 12, 1185–1196, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1185-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1185-2021, 2021
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11 May 2021
Transversely isotropic lower crust of Variscan central Europe imaged by ambient noise tomography of the Bohemian Massif
Jiří Kvapil, Jaroslava Plomerová, Hana Kampfová Exnerová, Vladislav Babuška, and György Hetényi
Solid Earth, 12, 1051–1074, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1051-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1051-2021, 2021
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16 Jun 2021
Seismicity and seismotectonics of the Albstadt Shear Zone in the northern Alpine foreland
Sarah Mader, Joachim R. R. Ritter, and Klaus Reicherter
Solid Earth, 12, 1389–1409, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1389-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1389-2021, 2021
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21 Apr 2021
Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps
Eline Le Breton, Sascha Brune, Kamil Ustaszewski, Sabin Zahirovic, Maria Seton, and R. Dietmar Müller
Solid Earth, 12, 885–913, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-885-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-885-2021, 2021
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19 Mar 2021
Gravity effect of Alpine slab segments based on geophysical and petrological modelling
Maximilian Lowe, Jörg Ebbing, Amr El-Sharkawy, and Thomas Meier
Solid Earth, 12, 691–711, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-691-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-691-2021, 2021
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28 Jan 2021
Extensional reactivation of the Penninic frontal thrust 3 Myr ago as evidenced by U–Pb dating on calcite in fault zone cataclasite
Antonin Bilau, Yann Rolland, Stéphane Schwartz, Nicolas Godeau, Abel Guihou, Pierre Deschamps, Benjamin Brigaud, Aurélie Noret, Thierry Dumont, and Cécile Gautheron
Solid Earth, 12, 237–251, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-237-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-237-2021, 2021
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02 Mar 2021
Gravity modeling of the Alpine lithosphere affected by magmatism based on seismic tomography
Davide Tadiello and Carla Braitenberg
Solid Earth, 12, 539–561, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-539-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-539-2021, 2021
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13 May 2020
Seismic evidence for failed rifting in the Ligurian Basin, Western Alpine domain
Anke Dannowski, Heidrun Kopp, Ingo Grevemeyer, Dietrich Lange, Martin Thorwart, Jörg Bialas, and Martin Wollatz-Vogt
Solid Earth, 11, 873–887, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-873-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-873-2020, 2020
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13 Oct 2020
Long-wavelength late-Miocene thrusting in the north Alpine foreland: implications for late orogenic processes
Samuel Mock, Christoph von Hagke, Fritz Schlunegger, István Dunkl, and Marco Herwegh
Solid Earth, 11, 1823–1847, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1823-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1823-2020, 2020
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