Seismic evidence of Alpine crustal thickening and wedging from the western Pyrenees to the Cantabrian Mountains (north Iberia)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Pedreira, D ^a   Pulgar, J A ^a   Gallart, J ^b   Diaz J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpine orogeny; Basque Cantabrian Basin; Cantabrian Mountains; Crustal wedges; Pyrenees; Seismic refraction

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 0041591495     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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