Late Orogenic doming in the eastern Betic Cordilleras: Final exhumation of the Nevado-Filabride complex and its relation to basin genesis

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Augier, Romain ^a   Jolivet, Laurent ^a   Robin, Cécile ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; OROGENIC BELT;

BETIC CORDILLERA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 27744478659     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001687     Document Type: Review

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