Multidisciplinary approach to an extensional syncline model for the Mesozoic Cameros Basin (N Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 3-20

  Casas, A M ^a   Villalain J J ^b   Soto, R ^b   Gil Imaz, A ^a   del Rio P ^c   Fernandez G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Extension; Geometry; Iberian Chain; Paleomagnetism; Sedimentary basin

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELLING; EXTENSION; IBERIAN CHAIN; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

BUILDINGS; DRAG; GEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MESOZOIC; MODELING; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SYNCLINE;

CAMEROS BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN CORDILLERA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67349254643     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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