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Nevado–Filabride complex. J Metamorph Geol 23:357–381
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TC4003
Augier R, Jolivet L, Do Couto D, Negro F (2013) From ductile to brittle, late- to postorogenic
evolution of the Betic Cordillera: structural insights from the northeastern internal zones. Bull
Soc Geol Fr 184:405–425
Balanyá JC, Crespo-Blanc A, Díaz Azpiroz M, Expósito I, Luján M (2007) Structural trend line
pattern and strain partitioning around the Gibraltar Arc accretionary wedge: insights as to the
mode of orogenic arc building. Tectonics 26(2):TC2005
Ballesteros M, Rivera J, Muñoz A, Muñoz-Martín A, Acosta J, Carbó A, Uchupi E (2008) Alboran
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Bezada MJ, Humphreys ED, Toomey DR, Harnafi M, Dávila JM, Gallart J (2013) Evidence for slab
rollback in westernmost Mediterranean from improved upper mantle imaging. Earth Planet Sci
Lett 368:51–60
Biju-Duval B, Letouzey J, Montadert L (1978) Structure and evolution of the Mediterranean basins.
Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 42:951–984
Blanc PL (2002) The opening of the Plio-quaternary Gibraltar Strait: assessing the size of a
cataclysm. Geodin Acta 15(5–6):303–317
Blinova VN, Comas MC, Ivanov MK, Poludetkina EN, Matveeva TV (2011) Active mud volcanism in the West Alboran Basin: geochemical evidence of hydrocarbon seepage. Mar Petrol
Geol 28(8):1483–1504
Booth-Rea G, Ranero CR, Martínez-Martínez JM, Grevemeyer I (2007) Crustal types and Tertiary
tectonic evolution of the Alborán sea, western Mediterranean. Geochem Geophys Geosyst
8. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GC001639
Bourgois J, Mauffret A, Ammar A, Demnati A (1992) Multichannel seismic data imaging of
inversion tectonics of the Alboran Ridge (Western Mediterranean Sea). Geo-Mar Lett 12
(2–3):117–122
Braga J, Martín J, Betzler C (2001) The messinian guadalhorce corridor: the last Northern, atlanticmediterranean gateway. Terra Nova 13(6):418–424
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