Variscan accretionary complex of northwest Iberia: Terrane correlation succession of tectonothermal events

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1103-1106

  Martínez Catalán, José R ^a   Arenas, Ricardo ^b   García, Florentine Díaz ^c   Abati, Jacobo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; VARISCAN;

METALS;

ACCRETION; ALLOCHTHON; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FOOTWALL; GONDWANA; HANGING WALL; OPHIOLITE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE; ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONOTHERMAL EVOLUTION; VARISCAN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; EUROPE;

EID: 0031421026     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1103:VACONI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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