Formation and deformation of hyperextended rift systems: Insights from rift domain mapping in the Bay of Biscay-Pyrenees

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1239-1276

  Tugend, J ^a   Manatschal, G ^a   Kusznir, N J ^b   Masini, E ^a   Mohn, G ^c   Thinon, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^d BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Bay of Biscay; collisional orogen formation; continental rifted margin; inheritance; Pyrenees; reactivation

Indexed keywords

MAPPING;

BAY OF BISCAY; COLLISIONAL; INHERITANCE; PYRENEES; REACTIVATION; RIFTED MARGINS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; FOSSIL; MAPPING; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; OROGENY; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; BAY OF BISCAY; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84906100990     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003529     Document Type: Article

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