Sediment supply from the Betic-Rif orogen to basins through Neogene

Tectonophysics

Volumn 475, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-84

  Iribarren, L ^a,b   Verges J ^a   Fernandez M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Erosion and vertical movements; Iberia Africa plate boundary; Sedimentary contributions; Sedimentary volumes; Sedimentation rates

Indexed keywords

ALBORAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DEEP BASIN; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; GIBRALTAR ARC; IBERIA-AFRICA PLATE BOUNDARY; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEO GENES; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTARY CONTRIBUTIONS; SEDIMENTARY VOLUMES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TIME SLICE; TIME VARIABILITY; TOPOGRAPHIC AMPLIFICATION; WIDE AREA;

AMPLIFICATION; EROSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CATCHMENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; NEOGENE; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

AFRICA; ALBORAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GHARB-CHRARDA-BENI HSSEN; GIBRALTAR; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; RHARB BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349181263     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.029     Document Type: Article

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