New time constraints on lithospheric-scale oroclinal bending of the Ibero-Armorican Arc: A palaeomagnetic study of earliest Permian rocks from Iberia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-143

  Weil, Arlo ^a   Gutiérrez Alonso, Gabriel ^b   Conan, Jordan ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT; BENDING; BLOCK ROTATION; CARBONIFEROUS; COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; GEODYNAMICS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PERMIAN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN; VIAR BASIN;

EID: 74449090890     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-002     Document Type: Article

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