Oroclinical bending and evidence against the Pangea megashear: The Cantabria-Asturias arc (northern Spain)

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 991-994

  Weil, Arlo B ^a   Van der Voo, Rob ^a   van der Pluijm, Ben A ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantabria Asturias arc; Fold and thrust belts; Orocline; Paleomagnetism; Pangea; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

MEGASHEAR;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); MAGNETIZATION; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGY;

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PANGAEA; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 84879888452     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0991:OBAEAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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