Oblique strain partitioning and transpression on an inverted rift: The Castilian Branch of the Iberian Chain

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 224-242

  De Vicente, G ^a   Vegas, R ^a   Munoz Martin A ^a   Van Wees, J D ^b   Casas Sainz A ^c   Sopena A ^a   Sanchez Moya Y ^a   Arche, A ^a   Lopez Gomez J ^a   Olaiz, A ^a   Fernandez Lozano J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cenozoic inversion; Iberia; Mesozoic Rifting; Transpression

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTIONS; BASIN INVERSIONS; BOUGUER GRAVITY ANOMALIES; BUCKLING AND BENDING; CENOZOIC INVERSION; DEFORMATION ZONES; EURASIA; IBERIA; LATE CRETACEOUS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOURS; MESOZOIC; MESOZOIC RIFTING; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULTS; PERMIAN; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; STRAIN CONDITIONS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATIONS; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TECTONIC EVOLUTIONS; TRANSPRESSION;

BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BOUGUER ANOMALY; COMPRESSION; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FOLDING; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRAVITY ANOMALY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE FAULT; OROGENY; PALEOSTRESS; RIFTING; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN CORDILLERA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CASTILIA;

EID: 67349249696     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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