Paleomagnetic, structural, and stratigraphic constraints on transverse fault kinematics during basin inversion: The Pamplona Fault (Pyrenees, north Spain)

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Larrasoana, Juan Cruz ^a,b   Parés, Josep María ^c   Millán, Hécor ^b   del Valle, Joaquín ^d   Pueyo, Emilio Luis ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Université Paul Sabatier ^*  (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Balance cross section; Basin inversion; Paleomagnetism; Pyrenees; Transverse fault

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULTING; INVERSION TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; PALEOMAGNETISM; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 0038471956     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001446     Document Type: Article

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