Normal fault development in a sedimentary succession with multiple detachment levels: The Lower Cretaceous Oliete sub-basin, Eastern Spain

Basin Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 409-435

  Rodríguez López, Juan Pedro ^a   Liesa, C L ^b   Melendez N ^a   Soria, A R ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; NORMAL FAULT; OUTCROP; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

ARAGON; EURASIA; EUROPE; OLIETE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TERUEL [ARAGON];

EID: 34548299128     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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