Plio-Pleistocene drainage development in an inverted sedimentary basin: Vera basin, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain

Geomorphology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 193-211

  Stokes, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Betic Cordillera; Drainage evolution; Plio Pleistocene; River capture; Vera Basin

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA INVERSION; DRAINAGE BASIN; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; VERA BASIN;

EID: 48649092256     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.10.026     Document Type: Article

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