Provenance of siliciclastic and hybrid turbiditic arenites of the Eocene Hecho Group, Spanish Pyrenees: Implications for the tectonic evolution of a foreland basin

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-180

  Caja, M A ^a   Marfil, R ^a   Garcia, D ^b   Remacha, E ^c   Morad, S ^d,e   Mansurbeg, H ^d   Amorosi, A ^f   Martinez Calvo C ^a   Lahoz Beltra R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CENTRE SPIN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENITE; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; PROVENANCE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE;

PYRENEES;

EID: 77950114206     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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