The Iberian Chaintertiary inversión of a mesozoic intraplate basin
ISSN: 1576-5172
Année de publication: 2000
Titre de la publication: V Congreso Geológico de España (Alicante, 10-14 julio 2000)
Número: 1
Pages: 67-69
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Geotemas (Madrid)
Résumé
The Mesozoic Iberian basin developed inside the Iberian plate in the eastern end of the Tethys sea. As a result of the Tertiary convergence between the Iberian plate with the European and African plates, the Iberian basin was contractionally inverted, giving rise to the Iberian and Catalan Coastal chains and the surrounding Tertiary basins. The Bouguer anomaly map of the area shows that the Iberian Chain has crustal roots which would have produced during the Tertiary contractional period.