Large-scale distributed deformation controlled topography along the western Africa-Eurasia limit: Tectonic constraints

Tectonophysics

Volumn 474, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 124-143

  de Vicente, G ^a   Vegas, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cenozoic morphotectonics; Iberian Peninsula; Lithospheric folding; Strike slip faulting

Indexed keywords

ANTI-ATLAS; CENOZOIC MORPHOTECTONICS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; EURASIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LITHOSPHERIC FOLDING; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE ATLAS; MIOCENE; MIOCENE TIME; MOUNTAIN RANGES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PURE SHEAR; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; VARISCAN;

BUILDINGS; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; DEFORMATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TENSILE STRESS;

TECTONICS;

AFRICAN PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EURASIAN PLATE; FOLDING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RIFTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 68849128489     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.026     Document Type: Article

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