Opposite subduction polarities connected by transform faults in the Iberian Massif and western European Variscides

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 364, Issue , 2002, Pages 253-262

  Simancas, Fernando ^a   Lodeiro, Francisco González ^a   Ramos, Inmaculada Expósito ^a   Azor, Antonio ^a   Poyatos, David Martínez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

EASTWARD PROPAGATION; GALICIA; OSSA-MORENA ZONES; SOUTH PORTUGUESE ZONES; VARISCAN; VERGENCES;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FOOTWALL; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GALICIAN SHELF; IBERIAN MASSIF;

EID: 84861932168     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.253     Document Type: Article

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