The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 4: Cenozoic Basins

The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 4: Cenozoic Basins
ISBN-10
3030111903
ISBN-13
9783030111908
Series
The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach
Category
Science
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2019-05-28
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Cecilio Quesada, José Tomás Oliveira

Description

Pursuing an innovative, global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its location close to successive plate margins, Iberia has played a pivotal role in the geodynamic evolution of the Gondwanan, Rheic, Pangea, Tethys and Eurasian plates over the last 600 Ma of Earth’s history. The geological record starts with the amalgamation of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic, which was succeeded by the rifting and spreading of the Rheic ocean; its demise, which led to the amalgamation of Pangea in the late Paleozoic; the rifting and spreading of several arms of the Neotethys ocean in the Mesozoic Era and their ongoing closure, which was responsible for the Alpine orogeny. The significant advances in the last 20 years have increasingly attracted international interest in exploring the geology of the Iberian Peninsula. This volume focuses on the Cenozoic basins of the Iberian Geology and consequently the most recent sedimentary features in the Iberian Geology apart of the active ones. In this book, you will find a detailed explanation of the alpine foreland basins, the extension of the west Mediterranean as well as the latest magmatism in Iberia.

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