The Conquista fault: Structural and kinematic criteria of a dextral transtensional shear-zone in the southern domain of the Ibero-Armorican Arc;La faille de Conquista : Caractérisation structurale et cinématique d'un cisaillement ductile dextre à composante normale dans le domaine sud de l'Arc Ibéro-Armoricain

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 325, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 601-606

  Aranguren, Aitor ^a   Cuevas, Julia ^a   Tubía, José María ^a   Carracedo, Manuel ^a   Larrea, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Central Iberian Zone; Conquista Fault; Dextral shearing; Los Pedroches batholith; Spain; Variscan Belt

Indexed keywords

FAULT; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SPAIN, CENTRAL IBERIAN ZONE;

EID: 0031420617     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1251-8050(97)89461-x     Document Type: Article

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