Page 87 - Carbonate Platforms Facies, Sequences, and Evolution

© 1990 The International Association of Sedimentologists ISBN: 978-0-632-02758-3 James Lee Wilson, Paul D. Crevello, J. Rick Sarg, J. Fred Read 79 Carbonate Platforms: Facies, Sequences and Evolution Edited by Maurice E. Tucker, graben development in this region. The main Triassic basement NE-SW trending Hercynian faults in the Palaeozoic resulted in the reactivation of major NW -SE and eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, the extension (Vegas & Banda, 1982; Ziegler, 1982). In the north­ mation of a complex network of grab

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length, NE-SW, and approximately 200 km across.
basins located in the north, northeastern and eastern
Pyrenees
in
of intracratonic type, similar to the central European
and the
complex Valencia-Cuenca Basin. These basins are
It is separated from the Ebro Basin to the south by