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of Iberia since the Late Jurassic: results from detailed aeromagnetic measurements in the
Newfoundland Basin. Tectonophysics 184(3–4):229–260
Srivastava SP, Schouten H, Roest WR, Klitgord KD, Kovacs LC, Verhoef J, Macnab R (1990b)
Iberian plate kinematics: a jumping plate boundary between Eurasia and Africa. Nature 344
(6268):756–759
Stampfli GM, Borel GD (2002) A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained
by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic oceanic isochrones. Earth Planet Sci Lett
196(1–2):17–33
Sternai P, Jolivet L, Menant A, Gerya T (2014) Subduction andmantle flow driving surface
deformation in the Aegean–Anatolian system. Earth Planet Sci Lett 405:110–118. https://doi.
org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.1008.1023
Suades E, Crespo-Blanc A (2013) Gravitational dismantling of the Miocene mountain front of the
Gibraltar Arc system deduced from the analysis of an olistostromic complex (Western Betics).
Geol Acta 11:215–229
Talukder AR, Comas MC, Soto JI (2003) Pliocene to recent mud diapirism and related mud
volcanoes in the Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean). In: Maltman A, Van Rensbergen P,
Morley C, Cartwright J (eds) Mobilisation of subsurface sediments, Geol Soc Spec Publ, vol
216, pp 443–459
Terrinha P, Matias L, Vicente J, Duarte J, Luis J, Pinheiro L, Lourenço N, Diez S, Rosas F,
Magalhães V (2009) Morphotectonics and strain partitioning at the Iberia–Africa plate boundary
from multibeam and seismic reflection data. Mar Geol 267(3):156–174
Torres-Roldan RL, Poli R, Peccerillo A (1986) An Early Miocene arc-tholeitic dike event from the
Alboran sea: evidence for precollisional subduction and back-arc crustal extension in the
westernmost Mediterranean. Geol Rundsch 75:219–234
Turner SP, Platt JP, George RMM, Kelley SP, Pearson DG, Nowell GM (1999) Magmatism
associated with orogenic collapse of the Betic–Alboran domain, SE Spain. J Petrol
40:1011–1036
Van Hinsbergen DJJ, Vissers RLM, Spakman W (2014) Origin and consequences of western
Mediterranean subduction, rollback, and slab segmentation. Tectonics 33(4):393–419
Vázquez JT (2001) Estructura del margen septentrional del Mar de Alborán. Doctoral Thesis,
Faculty of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 421 pp
Vázquez JT, Vegas R (1996) Estructura profunda de la Cuenca del Mar de Alborán: margen
continental nororiental y zona de transición hacia la Cuenca Surbalear. Geogaceta 20
(4):962–965
Vázquez JT, Vegas R (2000) Estilos diferentes de deformación en el límite de placas entre África y
Eurasia, desde el Arco de la Herradura al Mar de Alborán. In: 2ª Asamblea Hispano Portuguesa
de Geodesia y Geofísica. Comunicaciones, S03-19:147–148
Vázquez JT, Vegas R, Villalaín JJ (1995) ¿Existe un cuerpo peridotítico entre dos fallas
extensionales en el margen noroccidental del Mar de Alborán? Geogaceta 17:139–141
Vázquez M, Jabaloy A, Barbero L, Stuart FM (2011) Deciphering tectonic and erosion driven
exhumation of the Nevado–Filabride complex (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain) by low
temperature thermochronology. Terra Nova 23:257–263
Vázquez JT, Alonso B, Fernández-Puga MC, Gómez-Ballesteros M, Iglesias J, Palomino D,
Roque C, Ercilla G, Díaz-del-Río V (2015) Seamounts along the Iberian Continental Margins.
Boletín Geológico y Minero 126(2):483–514
Vegas R, Vázquez JT, Medialdea T, Suriñach E (1995) Seismic and tectonic interpretation of ESCIBéticas and ESCI-Alborán deep seismic reflection profiles. Structure of the crust and
geodynamics implications. Rev Soc Geol Esp 8(4):449–460
Vegas R, Juarez MT, Kälin O (1996) Tectonic and geodynamic significance of paleomagnetic
rotations in the Iberian Chain, Spain. Geogaceta 19:11–14
154
J.-T. Vázquez et al.