Stratigraphic record of preorogenic to synorogenic sedimentation, and tectonic evolution of imbricate units in the Alcañices synform (northwestern Iberian Massif)

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 364, Issue , 2002, Pages 17-35

  Clavijo, Emilio González ^a   Catalán, José R Martínez ^b  

^a Instituto Geologico e Mineiro   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

FAULTING;

GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IGNIMBRITE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NAPPE; OROGENIC BELT; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTATION; SILURIAN; THRUST FAULT;

IBERIAN MASSIF;

EID: 84870982641     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.17     Document Type: Article

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