Structural trend line pattern and strain partitioning around the Gibraltar Arc accretionary wedge: Insights as to the mode of orogenic arc building

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Balanya J C ^a   Crespo Blanc, A ^b,c   Diaz Azpiroz M ^a   Exposito I ^a   Lujan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AFRICAN PLATE; BACK ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EURASIAN PLATE; OCEAN BASIN; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION;

EID: 33750847570     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001932     Document Type: Article

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