Paleogene propagation of the southern Pyrenean thrust wedge revealed by finite strain analysis in frontal thrust sheets: Implications for mountain building

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 421-433

  Huyghe, D ^a   Mouthereau, F ^a,c   Castelltort, S ^b   Filleaudeau, P Y ^a   Emmanuel, L ^a  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

kinematics; mass balance; mountain building; Paleogene; Pyrenees; strain

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FINITE DISPLACEMENT; FINITE STRAIN ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; OROGENIC WEDGE; PALEOGENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PYRENEAN OROGEN; PYRENEES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THRUST WEDGES; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; KINEMATICS; OROGENY; PALEOGENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 70449732087     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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