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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/23805| Title: | Geological hazard in the central Mediterranean area |
| Authors: | Monaco, Carmelo |
| Keywords: | Geology, Structural -- Mediterranean Region Faults (Geology) -- Mediterranean Region Volcanology -- Mediterranean Region Volcanoes -- Mediterranean Region Hazardous geographic environments -- Mediterranean Region |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | Entomological Society of Malta |
| Citation: | Monaco, C. (2017). Geological hazard in the central Mediterranean area. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 9, 28 |
| Abstract: | The present-day tectonic framework of the central Mediterranean area is the result of the Neogene-quaternary geodynamic processes related to the ca. N-S Africa-Europe convergence. This area is currently affected by large earthquakes and by local volcanic activity, mostly related to extensional or oblique-slip tectonics. The main regional feature in the area is a prominent fault belt that runs more or less continuously for a length of about 200km from the central sector of the Aeolian archipelago (Aeolian- Tindari fault system), along the Mount Etna coastline as far as the Hyblean-Malta offshore (Alfeo–Etna and Malta Escarpment fault systems), connecting southwards with the Sicily Channel rift systems. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/23805 |
| Appears in Collections: | BulESM, 2017, Volume 9 BulESM, 2017, Volume 9 |
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