Emplacement of the Cuera and Picos de Europa imbricate system at the core of the Iberian-Armorican arc (Cantabrian zone, north Spain): New precisions concerning the timing of arc closure

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 729-751

  Merino Tomé, Oscar A ^a   Bahamonde, Juan R ^b   Colmenero, Juan R ^c   Heredia, Nemesio ^a   Villa, Elisa ^b   Farias, Pedro ^b  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; OROCLINE; OROGENIC WEDGE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; VARISCAN; VARISCAN BELT; WEDGE-TOP BASIN;

CAVITY RESONATORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONIFEROUS; CONTINENTAL ARC; CORE (PLANETARY); EMPLACEMENT; FORELAND BASIN; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IMBRICATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CANTABRIA; CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PICOS DE EUROPA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67349101316     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26366.1     Document Type: Article

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