Recent large fold nucleation in the upper crust: Insight from gravity, magnetic, magnetotelluric and seismicity data (Sierra de Los Filabres-Sierra de Las Estancias, Internal Zones, Betic Cordillera)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 463, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 145-160

  Pedrera, Antonio ^a   Galindo Zaldívar, Jesús ^a,b   Ruíz Constán, Ana ^a   Duque, Carlos ^a   Marín Lechado, Carlos ^c   Serrano, Inmaculada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basic rocks; Folding; Neogene basins; Neotectonic; Spain

Indexed keywords

FOCAL MECHANISM; FOLDING; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; NEOGENE; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; REVERSE FAULT; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; STRESS FIELD; UPPER CRUST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 57449117682     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.037     Document Type: Article

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