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Daniel Jimenez de Cisneros
Next September the village of Crevillente will be organised a summer course inside the offer of the Miguel Hernández University summer course entitled “Jimenez de Cisneros, pioneer in the geological and paleontological investigation in the Southern Alicante”. Presentation This year marks the centenary of Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros, Professor of Natural History, publication in the […]
The Agost Basin (Betic Cordillera, Alicante province, Spain): a pull-apart basin involving salt tectonics
A new work to illustrate a strike-slip basin in the Betics. Here the link to the publisher. The Agost Basin is characterized by a Miocene-Quaternary shallow marine and continental infilling controlled by the evolution of several curvilinear faults involving salt tectonics derived from Triassic rocks. From the Serravallian on, the area experienced a horizontal maximum compression […]
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This is a geological blog of a team of worker in the Westernmost Tethys which rocks are today found surrounding the Western Mediterranean basin (from the Gibraltar Strait to the Messina Strait-Sicily passage). We are focus on the interaction of the two main continents of Africa and Europe and the microplates in between. In this […]
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