Paleogeographic and sedimentary evolution of the South Pyrenean foreland basin

M Garcés, M López-Blanco, L Valero, E Beamud… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Paleogene and Neogene the NE Iberian plate underwent significant
paleogeographic changes driven by the Iberian and European plate collision and the …

Denudation history and palaeogeography of the Pyrenees and their peripheral basins: an 84-million-year geomorphological perspective

M Calvet, Y Gunnell, B Laumonier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This review provides a synthesis of the evolution of the Pyrenees since~ 84 Ma and is
uniquely focused on analysing jointly and comparatively its peripheral pro-foreland, retro …

Evolution of a continental collision belt: ECORS-Pyrenees crustal balanced cross-section

JA Muñoz - Thrust tectonics, 1992 - Springer
Construction of a crustal balanced cross-section across the Pyrenean chain shows a
minimum shortening of 147 km, 112 km of which are related to stacking of basement thrust …

Placing limits to shortening evolution in the Pyrenees: Role of margin architecture and implications for the Iberia/Europe convergence

F Mouthereau, PY Filleaudeau, A Vacherat, R Pik… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating shortening in collision belts is critical to reconstruct past plate motions. Balanced
cross‐section techniques are efficient in external domains but lack resolution in the …

Factors controlling the Alpine evolution of the central Pyrenees inferred from a comparison of observations and geodynamical models

C Beaumont, JA Muñoz, J Hamilton… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Geodynamical numerical modeling has been combined with crustal structural restoration of
the central Pyrenees in order to gain insight into fundamental processes that control the …

Thrusting and foreland basin evolution in the southern Pyrenees

C Puigdefàbregas, JA Muñoz, J Vergés - Thrust tectonics, 1992 - Springer
The geometry and the infill of the south Pyrenean foreland basin mainly depend on the
tectonic subsidence history due to the flexure of the crust, which in turn can be related to the …

Eastern Pyrenees and related foreland basins: pre-, syn-and post-collisional crustal-scale cross-sections

J Vergés, H Millán, E Roca, JA Muñoz, M Marzo… - Marine and Petroleum …, 1995 - Elsevier
A new crustal-scale cross-section through the Eastern Pyrenees shows a minimum of 125
km of total shortening across the belt. Convergence rates of 6 mm/yr (during early and …

Asymmetric exhumation across the Pyrenean orogen: implications for the tectonic evolution of a collisional orogen

PG Fitzgerald, JA Muñoz, PJ Coney… - Earth and Planetary …, 1999 - Elsevier
The Pyrenees are a collisional mountain belt formed by convergence between the Afro–
Iberian and European plates. Apatite fission track thermochronology from three vertical …

Sequence stratigraphy of nonmarine Jurassic–Cretaceous rocks, central Cordilleran foreland-basin system

BS Currie - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1997 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
An analysis of the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Morrison and Cedar Mountain
Formations of Utah and Colorado has resulted in a general sequence-stratigraphic model …

Partitioning of intermontane basins by thrust‐related folding, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

Burbank, McLean, Bullen, Abdrakhmatov - Basin Research, 2001 - earthdoc.org
Well‐preserved, actively deforming folds in the Tien Shan of Kyrgyzstan provide a natural
laboratory for the study of the evolution of thrust‐related folds. The uplifted limbs of these …