Plate kinematics in the Cantabrian domain of the Pyrenean orogen

The Cantabrian domain represents the western portion of the Pyrenean orogen, in the area where the Iberian continental lithosphere was subducted toward the north underneath the transitional to oceanic lithosphere of the Bay of Biscay. There, the about 100 km of orogenic convergence have been mostly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: S. Tavani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-09-01
Series:Solid Earth
Online Access:http://www.solid-earth.net/3/265/2012/se-3-265-2012.pdf