Superposition of tectono-thermal episodes in the southern Cantabrian Zone (foreland thrust and fold belt of the Iberian Variscides, NW Spain)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 487-498

  Aller, Jesus ^a   Valín, María Luz ^a   García López, Susana ^a   Brime, Covadonga ^a   Bastida, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conodont colour alteration index; Illite K bler index; Low grade metamorphism; Thrusts; Variscan

Indexed keywords

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; TECTONICS;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

STEPHANIA;

EID: 32044438217     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.6.487     Document Type: Article

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