Cenozoic Tectonics on the Galicia Margin, Northwest Spain.

Neogene tectonic activity (Betic Orogeny) along the southern plate boundary of Iberia, as it converged with Africa and the Alboran Plate was inserted between them, propagated along Iberia's west side as far north as Galicia, northwest Spain. As the activity propagated northward, it reactivated...

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Published in:Geo-Marine Letters
Main Authors: Pereiro-Muñoz, José Antonio, Acosta-Yepes, Juan, Uchupi, E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Sede Central IEO
Medio Marino
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10508/7154
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/319385
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-003-0126-1
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Summary:Neogene tectonic activity (Betic Orogeny) along the southern plate boundary of Iberia, as it converged with Africa and the Alboran Plate was inserted between them, propagated along Iberia's west side as far north as Galicia, northwest Spain. As the activity propagated northward, it reactivated structures formed during the Paleozoic (Hercynian), the Early Cretaceous opening of the northern North Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay, and the Paleogene Pyrenean Orogeny when Iberia collided with Eurasia. Recent earthquakes indicate that this tectonism is still active today as far north as northwest Spain. Sí

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