The review of recent bathymetric and geophysical data collected in the framework several research cartographic projects have allowed a detailed reconstruction morpho-structural setting (neo)tectonic evolution for both Alpine Apennine margins Ligurian Sea (Italy). widespread occurrence erosional processes sediment mass movements along steep continental slope within system submarine canyons refle...

The last maximum glacier advance in many mountain ranges appears to have predated the last maximum advance of the Wisconsinan continental ice sheets (-20,000 years B.P.). Published evidence from widely spaced localities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Hawai'i suggests that some mountain glaciers extended farther during one or more stades early in the last glaciation, roughly 115,0...

[1] Analysis and modeling of InSAR data covering the 2008 Reno-Mogul M 4.7 earthquake swarm indicate that the main event was produced by slip on a previously unrecognized strike-slip fault in the Reno basin. Deformation of 0.5– 2.5 cm in radar line-of-sight was produced by the main event and post-seismic slip over an area of more than 150 km. This earthquake is one of the smallest magnitude eve...

The Plio-Pleistocene refugia hypothesis recently gained support in explaining Brazilian Atlantic Forest megadiversity from combined analyses of species paleodistributions and genetic diversity. Here we examine genetic differentiation and historical distributions in the Rhinella crucifer group of toads, endemic to and widely distributed within this biome. We analyzed sequences of mitochondrial (...