Exhumation of high-pressure metapelites and coeval crustal extension in the Alpujarride complex (Betic Cordillera)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 231-252

  Azanon J M ^a   Garcia Duenas V ^a   Goffe B ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine tectonics; Betic Cordillera; Crustal extension; High pressure metamorphism

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EXTENSION; METAMORPHISM;

SPAIN, BETIC CORDILLERA;

EID: 0031830981     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00273-4     Document Type: Article

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