Alpine OrogenyDeformation and Structure in the Southern Iberian Margin (Betics s.l.)

  1. Pedro Terrinha
  2. Adrià Ramos
  3. Marta Neres
  4. Vasco Valadares
  5. João Duarte
  6. Sara Martínez-Loriente
Book:
The Geology of Iberia. A Geodynamic Approach.: Volume 3: The Alpine Cycle
  1. Cecilio Quesada Ochoa (coord.)
  2. José Tomás de Oliveira (coord.)

Publisher: Springer Suiza

ISBN: 978-3-030-11294-3

Year of publication: 2019

Pages: 453-486

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

Closure of the Tethys Ocean during the Neogene brought the Alborán Domain allochthonous terrane to collide with the paleomargins of both NW Africa and S Iberia. During the collision, parts of the South Iberian Domain were deformed by a thin-skinned thrust-and-fold system, while another part (Nevado-Filábride Complex) was subducted below the Alborán Domain and accreted below it after undergoing Alpine HP-LT metamorphism and ductile deformations. The Flysch Trough units are composed of deep marine sediments that were deformed by thin-skinned thrust-and-fold systems and thrust over the South Iberian Domain. Below the sea level, the Betic-Rif orogenic system extends westwards into the Gulf of Cádiz area where several orogenic wedges are thrust over the oceanic crust of both the African and the European plates.

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