Tectonic classification of Cenozoic Iberian foreland basins

Tectonophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 38-61

  De Vicente, G ^a   Cloetingh, S ^b   Van Wees, J D ^b,c   Cunha, P P ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Basin analysis; Cenozoic; Deformation; Iberia; Scale

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEFORMATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; CENOZOIC; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; IBERIA; SCALE; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION; TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT;

FAULT SLIPS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PULL APART BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79953700532     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.02.007     Document Type: Review

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