Fold and fault interactions during the development of an elongated narrow basin: The Almanzora Neogene-Quaternary Corridor (SE Betic Cordillera, Spain)

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Pedrera, Antonio ^a   Galindo Zaldívar, Jesús ^a   Sanz de Galdeano, Carlos ^b   López Garrido, Ángel Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; DENUDATION; FOLD; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE FAULT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR BAND; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 39849101731     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002138     Document Type: Article

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