Mantle exhumation, crustal denudation, and gravity tectonics during Cretaceous rifting in the Pyrenean realm (SW Europe): Insights from the geological setting of the lherzolite bodies

Lagabrielle, Yves; Labaume, Pierre; de Saint Blanquat, Michel

doi:10.1029/2009tc002588

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Mantle exhumation, crustal denudation, and gravity tectonics during Cretaceous rifting in the Pyrenean realm (SW Europe): Insights from the geological setting of the lherzolite bodies

Published in Tectonics • Jul 26, 2010

Authors:

Yves Lagabrielle

Pierre Labaume

Michel de Saint Blanquat

Abstract

[1] The Pyrenean peridotites (lherzolites) form numerous small bodies of subcontinental mantle, a few meters to 3 km across, exposed within the narrow north Pyrenean zone (NPZ) of Mesozoic sediments paralleling the north Pyrenean Fault. Recent studies have shown that mantle exhumation occurred along...

Subject

Geology

Cretaceous

Paleontology

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