Abstract:<p>The Basque-Cantabrian Zone was one of the most subsident areas between the European plate and the Iberian sub-plate during the Mesozoic rifting process that gave birth to the Bay of Biscay. Since the latest Cretaceous and during the Cenozoic, a change to a contractional setting driven by the northward drift of the African Plate made this hyperextended rift basin to be inverted and incorporated into the Pyrenean-Cantabrian mountain belt. The resulting crustal structure shows a high complexity, … Show more
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