Formation of arcuate orogenic belts in the western Mediterranean region

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 383, Issue , 2004, Pages 41-56

  Rosenbaum, Gideon ^a,b   Lister, Gordon S ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allochthonous terranes; Apennine maghrebide belt; Lithosphere; Rif Betic belt; Subduction rollback; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION ROLLBACK; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

BELT; CONVERGENCE; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; MESOZOIC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; SHAPE; SUBDUCTION;

AFRICA; ALBORAN SEA; CALABRIA; CORSE; FRANCE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA;

SOLEIDAE;

EID: 79951787046     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2383-3(2004)383[41:FOAOBI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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