Is the northwestern Betic Cordillera mountain front active in the context of the convergent Eurasia-Africa plate boundary?

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 352-359

  Ruiz Constan A ^a   Stich, D ^a   Galindo Zaldivar J ^a,b   Morales, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOCAL MECHANISM; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC WEDGE;

BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70350100500     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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