Neotectonic evolution of the Central Betic Cordilleras (Southern Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 405, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 191-212

  Reicherter, Klaus R ^a   Peters, Gwendolyn ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Betic Cordilleras; Deformation history; Fault slip data; Neotectonics; Paleostress

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FAULT SLIP; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSTRESS;

TORTONIA;

EID: 23144446941     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.05.022     Document Type: Article

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