Ranges and basins in the Iberian Peninsula: Their contribution to the present topography

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 223-234

  Vergés, Jaume ^a   Fernàndez, Manel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TERTIARY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846070189     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.13     Document Type: Article

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