Transpressional collision tectonics and mantle plume dynamics: The Variscides of southwestern Iberia

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 345-354

  Simancas, J F ^a   Carbonell, R ^b   Gonzalez Lodeiro F ^a   Perez Estaun A ^b   Juhlin, C ^c   Ayarza, P ^d   Kashubin, A ^a   Azor, A ^a   Martinez Poyatos D ^a   Saez R ^e   Almodovar G R ^e   Pascual, E ^e   Flecha, I ^b   Marti D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC WEDGE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRANSPRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846050978     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.21     Document Type: Article

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