Upright emplacement of the Gibraltar slab and the origin of rifting in adjacent foreland and Backarc Basins

Abstract Back-arc basins in subduction systems usually form following discrete subduction-related extension stages. However, in the westernmost Mediterranean, the initiation of Cenozoic extension associated with the Valencia Trough and Algerian Sea Basin introduced two extension centers nearly simul...

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Main Authors: Pengfei Ma, Shaofeng Liu, Guillermo Booth-Rea, Huiping Zhang, Ting Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01833-6
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