Polonia Alina

Since 1997 research scientist  at the National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences in Bologna. She took part and organized geological/geophysical expeditions in the Pacific Ocean (Southern Chile convergent margin), in the Eastern Mediterranean (Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex), Sea of Marmara (North Anatolian Fault) and the Ionian Sea (Calabrian Arc). Main research interests: structure of active margins, accretion and tectonic erosion processes along convergent plate boundaries, submarine earthquake geology.

Principal Investigator of the following projects or working groups:

• Crustal structure and evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula and its conjugated southern Chilean margin. Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (1995-1997).
• 1998: The Mediteranean Ridge accretionary complex in the easternmost Mediterranean Sea. Funded by ENI/AGIP.
• Convergence processes between Antarctic and Scotia plates along the southernmost Chilean margin. Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA - PROGRAMMA TRIENNALE 1999-2001).
• Active faults and historical earthquakes in the Marmara Sea (1999-2001 – Funded by: CNR, NATO, L-DEO, TUBITAK).
• Identification and characterization of seismogenic structures in the Southern Adriatic and Ionian Seas. Funded by INGV-DPC (2008-2010), Sismological projects (S1).
• TopoMed: ESF-EUROCORE Programme - 4-D Topography Evolution in Europe:Uplift, Subsidence and Sealevel Change (TOPO-EUROPE). INDIVIDUAL PROJECT 3-IT (Italy): Topographic evolution and subduction around the Calabria Arc. ISMAR U.O. The accretionary complex of the Calabrian Arc subduction system: study of active deformation and seismic hazard assessment (2008-2010).

Google Scholar Profile

• Polonia A., Brancolini G., Torelli L., Vera E., Busetti M. and Zanolla C. (1997). The Southernmost Chilean margin: preliminary results of a geophysical survey. In: The Antartctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes (C. A. Ricci ed.), pp. 653-660, Terra Antartica Publication, Siena.
• Polonia A., Brancolini G., e Torelli L., Vera E, 1999. Structural variability at the active continental margin off Southernmost Chile. Journ. of Geodynamics 27, 289-307.
• Polonia A., M.H. Cormier, M.N. Çagatay, G. Bortoluzzi, E. Bonatti, L. Gasperini, L. Seeber, N. Görür, L. Capotondi, C.M.G. McHugh, W.B.F. Ryan, Ö. Emre, N. Okay, M. Ligi, B. Tok, A. Blasi, M. Busetti, K. Eris,
• P. Fabretti, E.J. Fielding, C. Imren, H. Kurt, A. Magagnoli, G. Marozzi, N. Ozer, D. Penitenti, G. Serpi, K. Sarikavak, Exploring submarine earthquake geology in the Marmara Sea, EOS Transactions AGU, 83 (2002) 229 and 235–236.
• Polonia A., Camerlenghi A., Davey F. And Storti F, 2002. Seismic stratigraphy and tectonic style variation along the Eastern Mediterranean Ridge Accretionary Complex (results of re-interpretation of the MS-multichannel seimsic dataset). Marine Geology, 186, 127-144.
• Çagatay, M.N., N.Görür, A.Polonia, E.Demirbag, M.Sakinç, M.H.Cormier, L.Capotondi, C.McHugh, Ö.Emre, and K.Eris  (2003)  Sea level  changes and depositional environments in the Izmit Gulf, eastern Marmara  Sea, during the late glacial-Holocene period. Marine Geology, 202, 159-173.
• Costa E., Camerlenghi A., Polonia A., Cooper, C., Fabretti P., Mosconi, A.,  Murelli P., Romanelli M., Sormani L., Wardell N., 2004. Modelling deformation and salt tectonics in the eastern Mediterranean Ridge accretionary wedge. GSA Bulletin, v. 116, n. 7/8, p. 880-894.
• Seeber L., Emre O., Cormier M.H., McHgh C., Polonia A., and the team of the 2000 Urania cruise in the Marmara Sea, 2004. Uplift and Subsidence from Olique Slip: The Ganos-Marmara Bend of the North Anatolian Transform, Western Turkey. Tectonophysics, v. 391, n. 1-4, pp. 239-258
• Polonia A., Gasperini L., Amorosi A., Bonatti E., Bortoluzzi G., Çagatay N., Capotondi L., Cormier M.-H., Gorur N., McHugh C., Seeber L., 2004. Holocene slip rate of the North Anatolia Fault in the Marmara Sea.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 227, n.3/4, p. 411-426.
• Cormier, M.-H., Seeber, L., McHugh, C.M.G., Polonia, A., C¸ agatay, M.N., Emre, O¨ ., Gasperini, L., Go¨ru¨r, N., Bertoluzzi, G., Bonatti, E., Ryan, W.B.F., and Newman, K.R., 2006, The North Anatolian fault in the Gulf of Izmit (Turkey): Rapid vertical motion in response to minor bends of a non-vertical continental transform: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, B04102, doi: 10.1029/2005JB003633.
• Geletti R., Lodolo E., Schreider A. A. and Polonia A., 2005. Seismic structure and tectonics of the Shakleton Fracture Zone (Drake Passage, Scotia Sea). Marine Geophysical Researches, 26 (1), pp. 17-28.
• Seeber L., Cormier M.-H., McHugh C., Emre O., Polonia A., Sorlien C., 2006. Rapid subsidence and sedimentation from oblique slip near a bend on the North Anatolian transform fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey. Geology, v. 34, n. 11, pp. 933-936.
• McHugh C.M.G., Seeber L., Cormier M.-H., Dutton J., Cagatay N., Polonia A., Ryan W. B. F., Gorur N.,  Submarine earthquake geology along the North Anatolia Fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey: A model for transform basin sedimentation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 248, n. 3-4, pp. 661-684.
• Polonia, A., L. Torelli, G. Brancolini, and M.-F. Loreto (2007), Tectonic accretion versus erosion along the southern Chile trench: Oblique subduction and margin segmentation, Tectonics, 26, TC3005, doi:10.1029/2006TC001983.
• Polonia A., and Torelli L., Antarctic/Scotia plate convergence off southernmost Chile, 2007. Geologica Acta, v. 5, n. 4, 295-306.
• Çağatay M. N., K. Eriş, W.B.F. Ryan, Ü. Sancar, A. Polonia, S. Akçer, D. Biltekin, L. Gasperini, N. Görür, G. Lericolais, E. Bard, 2009. Late Pleistocene–Holocene evolution of the northern shelf of the Sea of
• Marmara, Mar. Geol. , doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.011
• Hieke, W., Camerlenghi, A., Cita M.B., Dehghani, G. A., Fusi N., Hirschleber, H. B., Mirabile L., Mueller C., Polonia A., 2009. Bannock Basin, Sirte Abyssal Plain and Conrad Spur: structural relationships between Mediterranean Ridge and its western foreland and implications on the character of the accretionary complex (eastern Mediterranean). Marine Geophysical Researches , v. 30 , n. 3, pp. 161-192.