Alternating contractional and extensional events in the Alpujarride nappes of the Alboran Domain (Betics, Gibraltar Arc)

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 226-238

  Balanyá, Juan C ^a   García Dueñas, Víctor ^a   Azañón, José M ^a   Sánchez Gómez, Mario ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SPAIN, BETIC CORDILLERA;

EID: 0030824349     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC03871     Document Type: Article

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