Three-dimensional shape and emplacement of the Cardenchosa deformed pluton (Variscan Orogen, southwestern Iberian Massif)

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 489-503

  Simancas, J Fernando ^a   Galindo Zaldívar, Jesús ^a   Azor, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZUAGA FAULT; GRAVIMETRIC MODELLING; MAGMA; PLUTON; RHEOLOGICAL DISCONTINUITY; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICS; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GRANITE;

DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; PLUTON;

SPAIN;

EID: 0034115890     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(99)00178-9     Document Type: Article

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