Neotectónica transpresiva en la plataforma continental Suribérica Atlántica
- Autores: Adolfo Maestro González, Luis Somoza, Víctor Díaz del Río Español, Juan Tomás Vázquez, Santiago R. Martín Alfageme, João Manuel Alveirinho Dias, Antonio Barnolas Cortina, Ramón Vegas Martínez
- Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 24, 1998, págs. 203-206
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Detailed structural, interpretátioh of a network of high-resolution seismic lines runnig across, , and along the continental shelf of Faro (south-lberian Atlantic margin) provides evidences of recent deformation structures associated with the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary. In these seismic profiles, palm-tree type flower structures interpreted as strike-slip faults affect the non-consolidated Holocene muddy shelf deposits and the underlying semi-cemented sandy shelf-wedges of the Pleistocene units. These structures are lined up following a ENE-WSW. direction, associated with the existence of a deeper dextral transcurrent basement fault with recent active seismicity between the southern Coringe Bank, Horseshoe Plain, Faro continental shelf and northern of Guadalquivir basin
