Variscan syncollisional extension in the Iberian Massif: structural, metamorphic and geochronological evidence from the Somosierra sector of the Sierra de Guadarrama (Central Iberian Zone, Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 87-109

  Escuder Viruete, J ^a   Hernaiz Huerta P P ^b   Valverde Vaquero, P ^c   Rodriguez Fernandez R ^d   Dunning, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INYPSA Informes y Proyectos SA   (Spain)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSION; METAMORPHISM; SHEAR ZONE; VARISCAN OROGENY;

SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA; SPAIN;

EID: 0344863071     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00014-6     Document Type: Article

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