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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS014 Oral Presentation 2264<br />

Plate boundary deformation and microplates motion in the Central<br />

Mediterranean<br />

Dr. Nicola D'Agostino<br />

Istituto Nazionale Geofisica Vulcanologia <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Giulio Selvaggi, Antonio Avallone, Daniele Cheloni, Elisabetta D'Anastasio, Sergio<br />

Mantenuto<br />

The Adriatic region has always puzzled and attracted the interest of the researchers involved in the<br />

studies of the Alpine-Mediterranean plate boundary zone. Whereas stratigraphic and paleomagnetic<br />

studies have described the Meso-Cenozoic evolution of the Adriatic region as a rigid promontory of the<br />

African plate, seismological and space geodetic information strongly support the evidence of an<br />

indipenden Adriatic microplate. In this study we use continuous and survey-style GPS measurements<br />

together with the analysis of earthquake slip vectors, to study the crustal motion and boundaries of the<br />

Adriatic region. Based on a rigorous statistical analysis of the data, we propose a set of Eulerian poles<br />

which describe the kinematics and the active deformation of the Central Mediterranean in terms of the<br />

relative motion between two microplates: Adria and Apulia. We propose that the Ionian region forms a<br />

single microplate with Apulia resolving the need for a discrete southern boundary between Adria and .<br />

We use a simple block model to illustrate how the microplates rotate to accommodate the Eurasia-Africa<br />

relative motion. The proposed present-day kinematics is then evaluated in relation to the evolution and<br />

fragmentation of the Adriatic promontory.<br />

Keywords: mediterranean, microplate, geodesy

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