Coastal uplift in continental collision plate boundaries: Data from the Last Interglacial marine terraces of the Gibraltar Strait area (south Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 95-109

  Zazo, C ^a   Silva, P G ^b   Goy, J L ^b   Hillaire Marcel, C ^c   Ghaleb, B ^c   Lario, J ^b   Bardaji T ^d   Gonzalez A ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal uplift; Gibraltar Strait; Last Interglacial; Raised beaches; Th U measurements; Transpressive tectonics

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PLATE BOUNDARY; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033555167     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00217-0     Document Type: Article

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