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978-1-4020-4235-5

The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4235-5

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Tectonic motion of the Adria microplate exerts a first-order control on the tectonics, geology, seismology, resource distribution, and the geological hazards across a broad zone of south-central Europe and the north-central Mediterranean. Since its first application to geodynamical problems, GPS geodesy has gradually revealed the nature of motion and deformation for most active areas of deformation across the Earth. One of the last remaining regional-scale problems on the planet is the motion and associated deformation in the peri-Adriatic region. Selected local-scale studies have examined aspects of this motion, but to date no truly regional analysis or regional team has systematically attacked the full breadth of this problem. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was held in Veszprém, Hungary from April 4-7, 2004.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Deformation, evolution, geodesy, geodynamics, geology, seismology, tectonics