Compressional structures on the West Iberia rifted margin: Controls on their distribution

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 306, Issue , 2008, Pages 169-183

  Peron Pinvidic G ^a   Manatschall, G ^a   Dean, S M ^b   Minshull, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b NOC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENCE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RIFTING; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IBERIAN ABYSSAL PLAIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 72149111676     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP306.8     Document Type: Article

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