Conveners:
Massimiliano Porreca (Università di Perugia)
Simone Bello (Università "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara)
Cristina Totaro (Università di Messina)
Chiara Nardoni (Università di Bologna)
Understanding the deformation history of active orogenic belts requires integrated, multi-disciplinary approaches that bridge long-term geological processes and present-day seismic activity. From Quaternary deformation to ongoing earthquake sequences, the interaction between structural geology and geophysics represents a key for deciphering the geodynamic evolution of complex mountain systems worldwide. This session aims to bring together contributions providing new data, methods, and conceptual models on deformation processes in active orogens across diverse tectonic settings and geological contexts. We welcome studies addressing both regional-scale tectonic architecture and high-resolution analyses of individual faults and earthquake sequences, fostering comparisons across spatial and temporal scales. Contributions may include seismotectonic investigations, structural-geological and field-based studies, paleoseismological analyses, and morphotectonic approaches. The session places emphasis on works that present a multidisciplinary approach based on integrating different datasets and disciplines, such as geological mapping, seismicity, geodesy, geomorphology, remote sensing and numerical or analog modeling, to link long-term deformation histories with short-term seismic behavior. By encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue and comparative perspectives among different orogenic belts, this session aims to advance our understanding of fault dynamics, seismic cycle processes, and crustal deformation, with implications for active tectonics, seismic hazard assessment, and the broader geodynamics of convergent and extensional mountain systems.