Rifted margins: State of the art and future challenges

G Peron-Pinvidic, G Manatschal… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Improvements in seismic imaging, computing capabilities, and analytical methods, as well
as a number of industry deep-water wells sampling distal offshore settings, have …

[HTML][HTML] Inhomogeneous rift inversion and the evolution of the Pyrenees

A Pedrera, J García-Senz, EL Pueyo, B López-Mir… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The kinematic evolution of the Pyrenees was largely controlled by structural and thermal
heterogeneities inherited from a precursor rift system, resulting in complex along-strike …

Evolution of the Alpine orogenic belts in the Western Mediterranean region as resolved by the kinematics of the Europe-Africa diffuse plate boundary

P Angrand, F Mouthereau - BSGF-Earth Sciences …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The West European collisional Alpine belts are the result of the inversion, initiated
in the middle Cretaceous, of the complex western Neotethys and the Atlantic continental rift …

The Mesozoic Iberia-Eurasia diffuse plate boundary: A wide domain of distributed transtensional deformation progressively focusing along the North Pyrenean Zone

R Asti, N Saspiturry, P Angrand - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Plate kinematic reconstructions available for the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous eastward
drift and counterclockwise rotation of the Iberian plate imply a major left-lateral motion of …

Geodynamic evolution of a wide plate boundary in the Western Mediterranean, near-field versus far-field interactions

L Jolivet, T Baudin, S Calassou… - BSGF-Earth …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The present-day tectonic setting of the Western Mediterranean region, from the Pyrénées to
the Betics and from the Alps to the Atlas, results from a complex 3-D geodynamic evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of a low convergence collisional orogen: a review of Pyrenean orogenesis

M Ford, E Masini, J Vergés, R Pik… - Bulletin de la …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Pyrenees is a collisional orogen built by inversion of an immature rift system during
convergence of the Iberian and European plates from Late Cretaceous to late Cenozoic. The …

Role of rift-inheritance and segmentation for orogenic evolution: example from the Pyrenean-Cantabrian system

R Lescoutre, G Manatschal - Bulletin de la Société …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Basque-Cantabrian junction corresponds to an inverted rift accommodation zone at the
limit between the former hyperextended Pyrenean and Cantabrian rift segments. The …

Crustal-scale balanced cross-section and restorations of the Central Pyrenean belt (Nestes-Cinca transect): Highlighting the structural control of Variscan belt and …

N Espurt, P Angrand, A Teixell, P Labaume, M Ford… - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we combined new field geological, structural, paleo-temperature and
subsurface data together with deep geophysical data to build a new 210 km-long crustal …

Paleogeothermal gradients across an inverted hyperextended rift system: Example of the Mauléon Fossil Rift (Western Pyrenees)

N Saspiturry, A Lahfid, T Baudin, L Guillou‐Frottier… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The fossil rift in the North Pyrenean Zone, which underwent high temperature‐low pressure
metamorphism and alkaline magmatism during Early Cretaceous hyperextension, was …

Continental interior and edge breakup at convergent margins induced by subduction direction reversal: A numerical modeling study applied to the South China Sea …

F Li, Z Sun, H Yang, J Lin, JM Stock, Z Zhao, H Xu… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamics of continental breakup at convergent margins has been described as the
results of backarc opening caused by slab rollback or drag force induced by subduction …