Lithospheric delamination

A virtual tour of the Ibero-Armorican orocline
Dynamic content features, such as animations, videos or 3D representations are useful tools to explain dynamic geological processes. …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Arlo B. Weil, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Stephen T. Johnston, J. Brendan Murphy
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Analogue modeling of lithospheric scale orocline buckling: Constraints on the evolution of the Ibero Armorican Arc
We report on a series of analogue modeling experiments that study the oroclinal buckling process as a thick-skinned process involving …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gernold Zulauf, Friedhelm Zanella
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Conical folding in the core of an orocline. A geometric analysis from the Cantabrian Arc (Variscan Belt of NW Iberia)
The Cantabrian Arc of the Variscan Belt has been recently defined as a true orocline, constraining kinematics and deformation timing. …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Kieran F. Mulchrone, Pedro Huerta
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Modelización análoga del desprendimiento de una raíz litosférica. ¿Puede un oroclinal producir el desprendimiento del manto litosférico?/Analogue modeling of detachment of a lithospheric root. Do oroclines trigger lithospheric detachment?
The behavior and evolution of mantle lithosphere during tectonic events is not yet fully understood. In addition, while some processes, …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Carlo Dietl, Friedhelm Zanella
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