Relevant publications

Matenco, L., Krezsek, C., Merten, S., Schmid, S., Cloetingh, S. and Andriessen, P.A.M., 2010. Characteristics of collisional orogens with low topographic build-up: an example from the Carpathians. Terra Nova, in press.

Merten, S., Matenco, L., Foeken, J.P.T., Stuart, F.M. and Andriessen, P.A.M., 2010. From nappe-stacking to out-of-sequence post-collisional deformations: Cretaceous to Quaternary exhumation history of the SE Carpathians assessed by low-temperature thermochronology. Tectonics, In Press.

Leever, K.A., Matenco, L., Garcia-Castellanos, D. and Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., 2010. The evolution of the Danube gateway between Central and Eastern Paratethys (SE Europe): Insight from numerical modelling of the causes and effects of connectivity between basins and its expression in the sedimentary record. Tectonophysics, In Press, Accepted Manuscript.

Seghedi, I., Matenco, L., Downes, H., Mason, P.R.D., Szakács, A. and Pécskay, Z., 2010. Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene-Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Tectonophysics, In Press, Accepted Manuscript.

Rabagia, T., Matenco, L. and Cloetingh, S., 2010. The interplay between eustacy, tectonics and surface processes during the growth of a fault-related structure as derived from sequence stratigraphy: The Govora-Ocnele Mari antiform, South Carpathians. Tectonophysics, In Press, Corrected Proof.

Jarosinski, M., Beekman, F., Matenco, L. and Cloetingh, S., 2010. Mechanics of basin inversion: Finite element modelling of the Pannonian Basin System. Tectonophysics, In Press, Corrected Proof.

Krézsek, C., Filipescu, S., Silye, L., Matenco, L. and Doust, H., 2010. Miocene facies associations and sedimentary evolution of the Southern Transylvanian Basin (Romania): Implications for hydrocarbon exploration. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(1): 191-214.

Leever, K.A., Matenco, L., Rabagia, T., Cloetingh, S., Krijgsman, W. and Stoica, M., 2010. Messinian sea level fall in the Dacic Basin (Eastern Paratethys): palaeogeographical implications from seismic sequence stratigraphy. Terra Nova, 22(1): 12-17.

Bocin, A., Stephenson, R., Mocanu, V. and Matenco, L., 2009. Architecture of the south-eastern Carpathians nappes and Focsani Basin (Romania) from 2D ray tracing of densely-spaced refraction data. Tectonophysics, 476(3-4): 512-527.

Vasiliev, I., Matenco, L. and Krijgsman, W., 2009. The syn- and post-collisional evolution of the Romanian Carpathian foredeep: New constraints from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and paleostress analyses. Tectonophysics, 473(3-4): 457-465.

Tischler, M., Matenco, L., Filipescu, S., Groger, H.R., Wetzel, A., and Fugenschuh, B., 2008, Tectonics and sedimentation during convergence of the ALCAPA and Tisza-Dacia continental blocks: the Pienide nappe emplacement and its foredeep (N. Romania): Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 298, p. 317-334.

Schmid, S., Bernoulli, D., Fügenschuh, B., Matenco, L., Schefer, S., Schuster, R., Tischler, M. and Ustaszewski, K., 2008. The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101(1): 139-183, pdf.

Matenco, L., Bertotti, G., Leever, K., Cloetingh, S., Schmid, S., Tărăpoancă, M. and Dinu, C., 2007. Large-scale deformation in a locked collisional boundary: Interplay between subsidence and uplift, intraplate stress, and inherited lithospheric structure in the late stage of the SE Carpathians evolution. Tectonics, 26(4): TC4011, doi: 10.1029/2006TC001951, pdf.

Leever, K.A., Matenco, L., Bertotti, G., Cloetingh, S. and Drijkoningen, G.G., 2006. Late orogenic vertical movements in the Carpathian Bend Zone - seismic constraints on the transition zone from orogen to foredeep. Basin Research, 18(4): 521-545.

Leever, K.A., Bertotti, G., Zoetemeijer, R., Matenco, L. and Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., 2006. The effects of a lateral variation in lithospheric strength on foredeep evolution: Implications for the East Carpathian foredeep. Tectonophysics, 421(3-4): 251-267.

Cloetingh, S., Bada, G., Matenco, L., Lankreijer, A., Horvath, F. and Dinu, C., 2006. Modes of basin (de)formation, lithospheric strength and vertical motions in the Pannonian-Carpathian system: inferences from thermo-mechanical modelling. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32(1): 207-221.

van der Hoeven, A.G.A., Mocanu, V., Spakman, W., Nutto, M., Nuckelt, L., Matenco, L., Munteanu, L., Marcu, C. and Ambrosius, B.A.C., 2005. Observation of Present-day Tectonic Motions in the South-Eastern Carpathians: Geodetic Results of the ISES/CRC-461 GPS Measurements. Earth Planett. Sci. Lett, 239: 177-184

Panea, I., Stephenson, R., Knapp, C., Mocanu, V., Drijkoningen, G., Matenco, L., Knapp, J. and Prodehl, K., 2005. Near-vertical seismic reflection image using a novel acquisition technique across the Vrancea Zone and Foscani Basin, south-eastern Carpathians (Romania). Tectonophysics, 410(1-4): 293-309.

Necea, D., Fielitz, W. and Matenco, L., 2005. Late Pliocene-Quaternary tectonics in the frontal part of the SE Carpathians: Insights from tectonic geomorphology. Tectonophysics, 410(1-4): 137-156.

Knapp, J.H., Knapp, C.C., Raileanu, V., Matenco, L., Mocanu, V. and Dinu, C., 2005. Crustal constraints on the origin of mantle seismicity in the Vrancea Zone, Romania: The case for active continental lithospheric delamination. Tectonophysics, 410(1-4): 311-323.

Dinu, C., Wong, H.K., Tambrea, D. and Matenco, L., 2005. Stratigraphic and structural characteristics of the Romanian Black Sea shelf. Tectonophysics, 410: 417-435

Cloetingh, S., Ziegler, P.A., Beekman, F., Andriessen, P.A.M., Matenco, L., Bada, G., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Hardebol, N., Dezes, P. and Sokoutis, D., 2005. Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: neotectonic controls on Europe’s intraplate continental topography. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 241-304

Cloetingh, S., Matenco, L., Bada, G., Dinu, C. and Mocanu, V., 2005. The evolution of the Carpathians-Pannonian system: Interaction between neotectonics, deep structure, polyphase orogeny and sedimentary basins in a source to sink natural laboratory. Tectonophysics, 410(1-4): 1-14.

Bocin, A., Stephenson, R., Tryggvason, A., Panea, I., Mocanu, V., Hauser, F. and Matenco, L., 2005. 2.5D seismic velocity modelling in the south-eastern Romanian Carpathians Orogen and its foreland. Tectonophysics, 410(1-4): 273-291.

Vasiliev, I., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Panaiotu, C.E., Matenco, L. and Bertotti, G., 2004. Magnetostratigraphyc dating and astronomical forcing of the Mio-Pliocene sedimentary sequences of the Focsani basin (Eastern Paratethys - Romania). Earth Planett. Sci. Lett, 227: 231-247

Tărăpoancă, M., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Bertotti, G., Matenco, L., Cloetingh, S.A.P.L. and Dinu, C., 2004. Role of the 3-D distributions of load and lithospheric strength in orogenic arcs: polystage subsidence in the Carpathians foredeep. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 221(1-4): 163-180.

Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., Burov, E., Matenco, L., Toussaint, G., Bertotti, G., Andriessen, P.A.M., Wortel, M.J.R. and Spakman, W., 2004. Thermo-mechanical controls on the mode of continental collision in the SE Carpathians (Romania). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218(1-2): 57-76.

Tărăpoancă, M., Bertotti, G., Matenco, L., Dinu, C. and Cloetingh, S., 2003. Architecture of the Focsani depression: A 13 km deep basin in the Carpathians bend zone (Romania). Tectonics, 22/6: 1074, doi:10.1029/2002TC001486

Matenco, L., Bertotti, G., Cloetingh, S. and Dinu, C., 2003. Subsidence analysis and tectonic evolution of the external Carpathian-Moesian Platform region during Neogene times. Sedimentary Geology, 156(1-4): 71-94.

Cloetingh, S., Horváth, F., Stephenson, R.A., Bertotti, G., Bada, G., Matenco, L. and TecTop working group, 2003. Probing tectonic topography at the aftermath of continental convergence in the Pannonian-Carpathian system. EOS, 84: 89-96

Bertotti, G., Matenco, L. and Cloetingh, S., 2003. Vertical movements in and around the SE Carpathian foredeep: Lithospheric memory and stress field control. Terra Nova, 15: 299-305

Matenco, L. and Bertotti, G., 2000. Tertiary tectonic evolution of the external East Carpathians (Romania). Tectonophysics, 316: 255-286

Răbăgia, T. and Matenco, L., 1999. Tertiary tectonic and sedimentological evolution of the South Carpathians foredeep: tectonic versus eustatic control. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 16/7: 719-740

Matenco, L. and Schmid, S., 1999. Exhumation of the Danubian nappes system (South Carpathians) during the early Tertiary: inferences from kinematic and paleostress analysis at the Getic/Danubian nappes contact. Tectonophysics, 314: 401-422

Kovac, M., Nagymarosy, A., Oszczypko, N., Slaczka, A., Csontos, L., Marunteanu, M., Matenco, L. and Marton, E., 1999. Palinspastic reconstruction of the Carpathian - Pannonian region during the Miocene. In: M. Rakus (Editor), Geodynamic development of the Western Carpathians. Dionyz Stur, Bratislava, pp. 189-218

Matenco, L., Bertotti, G., Dinu, C. and Cloetingh, S., 1998. Tectonic evolution of the contact zone between the South Carpathians and the adjacent Moesian Platform. In: C. Dinu and V. Mocanu (Editors), Geological structure and hydrocarbon potential of the Romanian areas. BGF Special Volume no. 1, Bucharest, pp. 85-121

Matenco, L., Zoetemeijer, R., Cloetingh, S. and Dinu, C., 1997. Lateral variations in mechanical properties of the Romanian external Carpathians: inferences of flexure and gravity modelling. Tectonophysics, 282: 147-166

Matenco, L., Bertotti, G., Dinu, C. and Cloetingh, S., 1997. Tertiary tectonic evolution of the external South Carpathians and the adjacent Moesian platform (Romania). Tectonics, 16(6): 896-911