Origin of the Permian-Triassic Iberian Basin, central-eastern Spain

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 443-464

  Arche, Alfredo ^a   López Gómez, José ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymmetric extension; Iberian basin; Rift basin; Subsidence curves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000109057     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00202-8     Document Type: Article

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