Syndepositional forced folding and related fluid plumbing above a magmatic laccolith: Insights from outcrop (Lower Cretaceous, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, western Pyrenees)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 982-1000

  Agirrezabala, Luis M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FLUIDIZATION; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; METHANE; PETROGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; CONTACT METAMORPHISM; EPISODIC ACTIVITY; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; INCREMENTAL EMPLACEMENT; LOWER CRETACEOUS; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION;

PLUMBING;

CONTACT METAMORPHISM; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; FOLDING; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LACCOLITH; MAGMATISM; OUTCROP; STRESS FIELD;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84933574198     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B31192.1     Document Type: Article

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