Basement deformation: Tertiary folding and fracturing of the Variscan Bielsa granite (Axial zone, central Pyrenees)

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 16, Issue 2-6, 2003, Pages 99-117

  Casas, Antonio M ^a   Oliva, Belén ^a   Román Berdiel, Teresa ^a   Pueyo, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Basement; Fold; Fracture; Pyrenees; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; DEFORMATION; FOLDING; FRACTURE; GRANITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TERTIARY; THRUST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346433431     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoact.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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