Structural evolution of Pico del Águila anticline (External sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques

Geologica Acta

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-26

  Vidal Royo, O ^a   Munoz J A ^a   Hardy, S ^a,b   Koyi, H ^c   Cardozo, N ^d  

^a Geomodels Research Centre GGAC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Analogue modeling; Detachment anticline; External sierras; Geomechanical restoration; Numerical modeling; Pico del guila

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; ANTICLINE; DECOLLEMENT; DETACHMENT FOLD; GEOMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTATION; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARAGON; HUESCA [ARAGON]; JACA BASIN; PICO DEL AGUILA; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84875460491     PISSN: 16956133     EISSN: 16965728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1344/105.000001780     Document Type: Article

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