Betic-Rif orogeny: Subduction of Mesozoic Tethys lithosphere under eastward drifting Iberia, slab detachment shortly before 22 Ma, and subsequent uplift and extensional tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Zeck, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETIC-RIF OROGENY; EXTENSION; SLAB DETACHMENT; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY; UPLIFT;

EID: 0029751852     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00206-5     Document Type: Article

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