Emplacement of a passive-margin evaporitic allochthon in the Betic Cordillera of Spain

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-70

  Flinch, Joan F ^a,b   Bally, Albert W ^a   Wu, Shengu ^a,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departamento de Geología   (Venezuela)

^c Box 4326   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; BETIC CORDILLERA; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER; GULF OF MEXICO; LATE CRETACEOUS; MARGIN SETTING; UPPER CRETACEOUS; EVAPORITES; PALEOGENE;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ALLOCHTHON; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EMPLACEMENT; EVAPORITE; MELANGE; PASSIVE MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; PALAEOGENE; TRIASSIC;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BETIC CORDILLERA; GULF OF MEXICO; SPAIN;

EID: 0029730385     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0067:EOAPME>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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