Vazquez, M., Jabaloy, A., Barbero, L. and Stuart, F.M. (2011) Deciphering tectonic and erosion-driven exhumation of the Nevado-Filabride Complex (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain) by low temperature thermochronology. Terra Nova, 23(4), pp. 257-263. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01007.x)
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Abstract
New apatite (U-Th)/He and fission-track data from the Nevado–Filábride complex in the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain are used to constrain the Neogene exhumation history. Apatite (U-Th)/He ages are close to fission-track ages in western Sierra Nevada indicating that rapid cooling occurred at 8–6 Ma, consistent with exhumation due to extension along the Mecina Fault. The western Sierra de los Filabres cooled rapidly at c. 12 Ma, while the central Sierra de los Filabres experienced less rapid cooling at 8 Ma. The age distribution in the Sierra de los Filabres can be explained by exhumation due to flexural uplift to the south-west of the footwall of the Mecina Fault. The lower cooling rates in the central Sierra de los Filabres suggest that folding and erosion were the main exhumation processes during the Late Tortonian.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Stuart, Professor Fin |
| Authors: | Vazquez, M., Jabaloy, A., Barbero, L., and Stuart, F.M. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre |
| Journal Name: | Terra Nova |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0954-4879 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1365-3121 |
| Published Online: | 07 June 2011 |
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