Uplift and Exhumation of the Axial Zone in the Pyrenean Orogen, Spain

比利牛斯山是一个克拉通内造山带，形成于晚白垩世和早中新世之间，是非洲-伊比利亚板块和欧洲板块会聚运动的结果。 在比利牛斯山脉形成之前，没有大规模的洋壳俯冲，也没有岩浆形成，但最近的研究表明，有150公里的大规模地壳缩短。 最近的ECORS地震剖面允许开发详细的事件序列来解释这些数据。 如果正确的话，所提出的事件顺序对西地中海的构造有重要意义。 该项目的目的是通过使用裂变追踪地质年代学来测试这些想法，以帮助区分预测的不同隆起模式。 研究结果应有助于理解海底俯冲量较小的挤压碰撞。

The Pyrenees are an intracratonic mrogen which formed between late Cretaceous and Early Miocenes as a result of convergent motions between the Afro-Iberian and European plates. No large-scale subduction of ocean crust preceded the formations of the Pyrenees and no magma formed, yet recent work indicates 150 km of massive crustal shortening. The recent ECORS seismic section has allowed a detailed sequence of events to be developed to explain these data. If correct, the proposed sequence of events has importance for the tectonics of the western Mediterraneans. The purpose of this project is to test these ideas by using Fission Track geochronometry to help discriminate between the different uplift patterns predicted. Results should help in understanding compressional collisions where the amount of seafloor subduction has been minor.