Palaeomagnetic results from upper Miocene and Pliocene rocks from the internal zone of the eastern Betic Cordilleras (southern Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 277, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 271-283

  Calvo, Manuel ^a,b   Vegas, Ramón ^b   Osete, María Luisa ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Betic Cordillera; Neogene; Palaeomagnetism; Rotation

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; MIOCENE; PALAEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE;

SPAIN, BETIC CORDILLERA;

EID: 0031423963     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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