Structure and alpine evolution of the Madrid basin
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1995
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Structure and alpine evolution of the Madrid basin (1996) De Vicente, G.; González-Casado, J.M.; Muñoz Martín, A.; Giner Robles, J.L. y Rodríguez Pascua, M.A. Tertiary Basins of Spain. Cambridge Univ. Press (P. Friend y C. Dabrio, Eds.), 255-259.
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The Madrid basin is intracratonic and triangular in form, being bounded on its three sides by Tertiary mountain ranges: the Spanish Central System in the north, the Toledo mountains in the south, and the Iberian and Altomira ranges in the east. The Altomira range separates the Loranca basin from the Madrid basin (Fig. 1). Each of these mountain ranges has a different structure and Tertiary geological evolution. The kinematic history of each of these borders of the Madrid basin reflects differences in the transmission of stresses from the active Iberian plate boundaries where the Betic and Pyrenean chains themselves had distinctive kinematic histories.