Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Ford, Mary, Vergés, Jaume
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Generalitat de Catalunya, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of London 2020
• Subjects: Western Pyrenees; Basement Blocks; Mesozoic Evolution; Mantle exhumation; Southern Corbieres; Alkaline magmatism; Cretaceous Albitization; Iberia-newfoundland; Central High-Atlas; Fold-thrust belt; Pyramid; Pyramid The; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/222554; https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-157; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001665; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004794; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002809; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

In this field study we reinterpret the narrow eastern North Pyrenean Zone, France, as an inverted salt-rich transtensional rift system based on identification of halokinetic depositional sequences across rift platform to distal rift margin domains with a cumulative throw of >2.8 km on steep Creta...