Syn-depositional thin- and thick-skinned extensional tectonics in the mid-Cretaceous Lasarte sub-basin, western Pyrenees

Basin Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 594-612

  Bodego, Arantxa ^a   Agirrezabala, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSTENSION;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84883805406     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12017     Document Type: Article

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