Deformación extensional de las unidades alóctonas superiores de la parte oriental del Complejo de Ordenes (Galicia).

  1. Martínez Catalán, José Ramón
  2. Arenas Martín, Ricardo
Journal:
Geogaceta

ISSN: 0213-683X

Year of publication: 1991

Issue: 11

Pages: 108-111

Type: Article

More publications in: Geogaceta

Abstract

A penetrative extensional tectonics, which includes the existence of three important detachments, has been identified in the Sobrado area, in the eastern margin of the Ordenes Complex. It is related to the extensional collapse of an orogenic wedge built previously by crustal thickening and stacking of allochthonous terranes. The collapse could be linked to the emplacement of the terranes over their relative autochthon