The role of the Bay of Biscay Mesozoic extensional structure in the configuration of the Pyrenean orogen: Constraints from the MARCONI deep seismic reflection survey

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Roca, Eduard ^a   Muñoz, Josep Anton ^a   Ferrer, Oriol ^a   Ellouz, Nadine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY;

ABYSSAL PLAINS; BAY OF BISCAY; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTROLLED NOT; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EURASIA; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MARCONI; MESOZOIC; PYRENEAN OROGEN; PYRENEES; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SPANISH COASTS; TRANSFER ZONES; TWO DOMAINS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; OROGENY; THRUST FAULT; TRANSFER ZONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 79952473427     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002735     Document Type: Article

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