Thermal effects of linked lithospheric and upper crustal-scale processes: Insights from numerical modeling of the Cenozoic Central Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE Spain)

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  ter Voorde, Marlier ^a   Gaspar Escribano, J M ^a,b   Juez Larre J ^a   Roca, E ^c   Cloetingh, S ^a   Andriessen, P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Higher Technical School of Topography   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THINNING; FAULT; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFTING; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPPER CRUST;

CATALONIA; CATALONIAN COASTAL RANGES; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 37549012528     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002131     Document Type: Article

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