CROP Project - Deep Seismic Exploration of the Central Mediterranean and Italy (Hardcover)

This book presents and discusses new data ranging from Alps to Africa, obtained by the CROP PROJECT (transcrustal seismic exploration of the Mediterranean and Italy). New lithospheric imagings of relevant importance for understanding disputed topics are provided. Alps, Apennines, Calabrian Arc, Sicilian Apennine, Maghrebian Chain, Corso-Sardinian Block, paleo-basins (Ionian, Alpine Tethys), neo-basins (Balearic and Tyrrhenian) are innovatively reconstructed. The key features are: provides new data from the Alps to Africa; presents interpretation of the CROP seismic network data; and offers a stepwise increase in information with new data for further studies.