Kinematics of orocline tightening in the core of an arc: Paleomagnetic analysis of the Ponga Unit, Cantabrian Arc, northern Spain

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Weil, Arlo Brandon ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLDING; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CANTABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33751357740     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001861     Document Type: Article

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