Recent and present-day stresses in the Granada Basin (Betic Cordilleras): Example of a late Miocene-present-day extensional basin in a convergent plate boundary

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 686-702

  Galindo Zaldivar J ^a   Jabaloy, A ^a   Serrano, I ^a   Morales, J ^a   Gonzalez Lodeiro F ^a   Torcal, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRESS; TECTONICS;

GRANADA BASIN; SPAIN;

FAULTING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL SURFACE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; LOW-THERMAL GRADIENTS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0033453243     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900016     Document Type: Article

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