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The Pyrenees are an Alpine-age mountain belt located on the boundary between the Iberian and European plates. Using the same geological and geophysical data, Earth scientists studying the structure of the Pyrenees during the past ten years have not reached a consensus. Here we report the first results from a nearly continuous, 255-km-long reflection seismic survey across the Pyrenean chain. This first deep reflection profile of an entire erogenic belt will help to constrain possible models for the structure and formation of the Pyrenean chain.
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ECORS Pyrenees team The ECORS deep reflection seismic survey across the Pyrenees. Nature 331, 508–511 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/331508a0
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