Thrust and detachment systems in the Ordenes Complex (northwestern Spain): Implications for the Variscan-Appalachian geodynamics

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 364, Issue , 2002, Pages 163-182

  Martínez Catalán, José R ^a   García, Florentino Díaz ^b   Arenas, Ricardo ^c   Abati, Jacobo ^c   Castiñeiras, Pedro ^c   Cuadra, Pablo González ^a   Barreiro, Juan Gómez ^a   Rubio Pascual, Francisco J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS;

CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; NORMAL SEQUENCES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OUT OF SEQUENCES; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TERRANE ACCRETION;

PILES;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETACHMENT FOLD; GONDWANA; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; ORDOVICIAN; THRUST FAULT;

SPAIN;

EID: 84858153356     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.163     Document Type: Article

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