Closing and continentalization of the South Pyrenean foreland basin (NE Spain): Magnetochronological constraints

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 904-917

  Costa, Elisenda ^a   Garcés, Miguel ^a   López Blanco, Miguel ^a   Beamud, Elisabet ^b   Gómez Paccard, Miriam ^a   Larrasoaña, Juan Cruz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; EUSTACY; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNDERPLATING; UPLIFT;

EBRO BASIN; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 78249288984     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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