Preorogenic exhumation of the North Pyrenean Agly massif (Eastern Pyrenees-France)

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 95-106

  Vauchez, Alain ^a   Clerc, Camille ^a,b   Bestani, Lucie ^a,d   Lagabrielle, Yves ^a   Chauvet, Alain ^a   Lahfid, Abdeltif ^c   Mainprice, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c BRGM   (France)

^d CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

ductile deformation; exhumation; North Pyrenean massifs; pre orogenic extension

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DEFORMATION; LIMESTONE; QUARTZ; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EXHUMATION; LOW-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC; NORTH PYRENEAN MASSIFS; PRE-OROGENIC EXTENSION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRIES; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS;

BUILDINGS;

CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; LIMESTONE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; MYLONITE; OROGENY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; TRIASSIC;

FRANCE; PYRENEES;

EID: 84878408187     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tect.20015     Document Type: Article

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