The role of extensional detachment systems in thinning the crust and exhuming granulites: analogies between the offshore Le Danois High and the onshore Labourd Massif in the Biscay/Pyrenean rifts

Special Issue Orogen lifecycle: learnings and perspectives from Pyrenees, Western Mediterranean and analogues

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 192, 2021 Special Issue Orogen lifecycle: learnings and perspectives from Pyrenees, Western Mediterranean and analogues


Article Number		57
Number of page(s)		17
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2021045
Published online		15 November 2021

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