%0 Book Section %T The Duero Basin: a general overview publisher Cambridge University Press %D 1996 %U 0521461715 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60498 %X The Duero basin occupies a large area in the north-west of the Iberian PenĂ­nsula. It has ao approximately quadrangular shape, and three of its four corners are the sites of distinctive sub-basins that extend outwards from the main basic. The different margins of lhe sub-basins and the main basic tend to have distinctive histories of tectonic and sedimentary evolution. %~