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  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Liviu Matenco is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Artificial Intelligence. The primary focus areas of their work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological Formations and Processes Exploration, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

The scientist has published extensively, with a notable concentration in the journal Global and Planetary Change, where 11 of their works have appeared. Other frequent venues include the Journal of Structural Geology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Tectonics, and Tectonophysics.

Recent publications demonstrate a breadth of topics relating to tectonics, stratigraphy, and coupled Earth processes. These include:

  • Tectonic regimes and stress patterns in the Vrancea Seismic Zone: Insights into intermediate-depth earthquake nests in locked collisional settings (2020), published in Tectonophysics
  • Towards stratigraphic-thermo-mechanical numerical modelling: Integrated analysis of asymmetric extensional basins (2020), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • The 'pargasosphere' hypothesis: Looking at global plate tectonics from a new perspective (2021), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • Coupled surface to deep Earth processes: Perspectives from TOPO-EUROPE with an emphasis on climate- and energy-related societal challenges (2023), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • Understanding partitioning of deformation in highly arcuate orogenic systems: Inferences from the evolution of the Serbian Carpathians (2020), published in Global and Planetary Change

Collaborations form a significant part of their research output. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ernst Willingshofer (15 publications)
  • Nemanja Krstekanić (6 publications)
  • Uroš Stojadinović (6 publications)
  • Marinko Toljić (5 publications)
  • Fadi H. Nader (5 publications)

Liviu Matenco is a member of Academia Europaea since 2018, an acknowledgment reflecting a recognized position within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units

    Stefan M. Schmid;Daniel Bernoulli;Bernhard Fügenschuh;Liviu Matenco

  • Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey

    Stefan M. Schmid;Bernhard Fügenschuh;Alexandre Kounov;Liviu Maţenco

  • 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

    Liviu Matenco;Giovanni Bertotti;Karen Leever;Sierd Cloetingh

  • On the formation and evolution of the Pannonian Basin: Constraints derived from the structure of the junction area between the Carpathians and Dinarides

    L. Matenco;D. Radivojević

  • Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: neotectonic controls on Europe's intraplate continental topography.

    S. Cloetingh;P.A. Ziegler;F. Beekman;P.A.M. Andriessen

  • The link between tectonics and sedimentation in back???arc basins: New genetic constraints from the analysis of the Pannonian Basin

    Attila Balázs;Attila Balázs;L. Matenco;Imre Magyar;Ferenc Horváth

  • Tertiary tectonic evolution of the external East Carpathians (Romania).

    L. Matenco;G.V. Bertotti

  • Characteristics of collisional orogens with low topographic build-up: an example from the Carpathians

    Liviu Matenco;Csaba Krézsek;Sandra Merten;Stefan Schmid

  • Thermo-mechanical controls on the mode of continental collision in the SE Carpathians (Romania)

    S.A.P.L. Cloetingh;E. Burov;L. Matenco;G. Toussaint

  • Geodynamics and intermediate-depth seismicity in Vrancea (the south-eastern Carpathians): Current state-of-the art

    Alik Ismail-Zadeh;Alik Ismail-Zadeh;Alik Ismail-Zadeh;Liviu Matenco;Mircea Radulian;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Crustal constraints on the origin of mantle seismicity in the Vrancea Zone, Romania: The case for active continental lithospheric delamination

    James H. Knapp;Camelia C. Knapp;Victor Raileanu;Liviu Matenco

  • Stratigraphic and structural characteristics of the Romanian Black Sea shelf

    C. Dinu;H.K. Wong;D. Tambrea;L. Matenco

  • Architecture of the Focşani Depression: A 13 km deep basin in the Carpathians bend zone (Romania)

    M. Tărăpoancă;G. Bertotti;L. Maţenco;C. Dinu

  • Towards an astrochronological framework for the eastern Paratethys Mio–Pliocene sedimentary sequences of the Focşani basin (Romania)

    Iuliana Vasiliev;Wout Krijgsman;Cor G. Langereis;Cristina E. Panaiotu

  • TOPO-EUROPE: the geoscience of coupled deep earth-surface processes

    S. A. P. L. Cloetingh;P. A. Ziegler;P. J. A. Bogaard;P. A. M. Andriessen

  • Subsidence analysis and tectonic evolution of the external Carpathian-Moesian Platform region during Neogene times

    L.C. Matenco;G.V. Bertotti;S.A.P.L. Cloetingh;C. Dinu

  • From nappe stacking to out‐of‐sequence postcollisional deformations: Cretaceous to Quaternary exhumation history of the SE Carpathians assessed by low‐temperature thermochronology

    S. Merten;L.C. Matenco;J.P.T. Foeken;F.M. Stuart

  • Jurassic arc volcanism on Crimea (Ukraine): Implications for the paleo-subduction zone configuration of the Black Sea region

    M.J.M. Meijers;M.J.M. Meijers;B. Vrouwe;D.J.J. van Hinsbergen;D.J.J. van Hinsbergen;K.F. Kuiper;K.F. Kuiper

  • Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene–Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian–Pannonian Region

    Ioan Seghedi;Liviu Maţenco;Hilary Downes;Paul R.D. Mason

  • The isolation of the Pannonian basin (Central Paratethys): New constraints from magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy

    Marten ter Borgh;Marten ter Borgh;Iuliana Vasiliev;Marius Stoica;Slobodan Knežević

  • Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

    D. J. J. Van Hinsbergen;T. H. Torsvik;S. M. Schmid;L. Matenco

Frequent Co-Authors

Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Paul Andriessen
Paul Andriessen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Giovanni Bertotti
Giovanni Bertotti Delft University of Technology
Oleg Mandic
Oleg Mandic Natural History Museum Vienna
Daniel García-Castellanos
Daniel García-Castellanos Spanish National Research Council
Dimitrios Sokoutis
Dimitrios Sokoutis Utrecht University
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Randell Stephenson
Randell Stephenson University of Aberdeen
Mihai N. Ducea
Mihai N. Ducea University of Arizona

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