CROP Project

Section 1. Previous main broad geophysical and geological explorations.1. Review of the main results of the pioneering MS seismic exploration programme in the deep water of the Mediterranean Sea2. Review of seismic wide-angle reflection-refraction (WARR) results in the Italian region (1956-1987)3. Gravity and magnetic fields of the central mediterranean region4. Bedrock geology of the Tyrrhenian Sea Section 2. Crop seismic data acquisition and processing.5. Crop seismic data acqusition, processing and interpretive reprocessing Section 3. Opening of the Ionian and Alpine Neotethyan Oceans.6. Ionian and Alpine Oceans Neotethyan opening Section 4. The Alps.7. Crustal tectono-stratigraphic sections across the western and eastern Alps from ECORS-CROP and transalp seismic data Section 5. The Apennines-Calabrian Arc-Sicilian/Maghrebian chain.8. Lithospheric tectono-stratigraphic setting of the Ligurian Sea-Northern Apennines-Adriatic foreland from integrated crop seismic data9. Crustal geologic section across central Italy from the Corsica Basin to the Adriatic Sea, based on geological and crop seismic data10. Understanding the ionides and their geodynamics11. Ionian tethydes in the Southern Apennines12. Crustal tectono-stratigraphy and geodynamics of the Southern Apennines from crop and other integrated geophysical - geological data13. Magnetotelluric profiling along the crop-04 section in the Southern Apennines14. Multiscale derivative analysis of the gravity and magnetic fields of Southern Apennines (Italy)15. Geological outline of Sicily and lithospheric tectono-dynamics of its Tyrrhenian margin from new crop seismic data16. Comparative NV and WA seismic modelling of sections in the Tyrrhenian Sea17. The Calabrian Arc and subducting Ionian slab from new crop seismic data Section 6. The Corso-Sardinian block.18. Crustal tectono-stratigraphic setting and geodynamics of the Corso-Sardinian block from new crop seismic data Section 7. Deep paleo-neo-basins.19. Crustal tectono-stratigraphy of the Ionian Sea from integrated new crop seismic data20. Lithospheric tectono-dynamics of the Balearic basin opening from CROP-ECORS seismic data21. Ionian tethys lithosphere roll-back sinking and back-arc Tyrrhenian opening from new crop seismic data22. Geodynamic significance of Tyrrhenian seafloor morphology Section 8. Adriatic and Pelagian forelands.23. Crustal tectono-stratigraphic setting of the Adriatic Sea from new crop seismic data24. Seismic modelling applied to interpretation of a crop crustal section in the Adriatic Sea25. Mechanism and timing of the pliocene-pleistocene foredeep migration in the Abruzzo offshore area26. Crustal tectono-stratigraphic setting of the Pelagian foreland from new crop seismic data Section 9. The Moho of the Central Mediterranean region.27. Depth contour map of the Moho discontinuity in the central mediterranean region from new crop seismic data Section 10. Magmatism.28. Triassic magmatism and jurassic ophiolites at the margins of the Adria plate29. Cenozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the central-western Mediterranean: Migration of an arc-interarc basin system and variations in the mode of subduction30. Within-plate cenozoic volcanism and lithospheric mantle evolution in the western-central Mediterranean area31. A reapparaisal of the betic ophiolitic association: the westernmost relic of the alpine tethys Section 11. Geodynamic evolution.32. Evolutionary reconstruction of the Mediterranean region: Extrusion tectonics driven by the convergence of Africa Arabia and Eurasia33. Plate tectonics of the apulia-adria microcontinents34. Geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean region, from the permo-triassic Ionian opening to the present, constrained by new lithospheric crop seismic data