El levantamiento Tortoniense-Cuaternario de Sierra Nevada (Granada, España): Fenómenos de tectónica gravitatoria en su borde occidental

Abstract

The former Alpujarride nappes at the western margin of Sierra Nevada are strongly affected by gravitational collapse phenomena, with significant thinning of their original thickness, creation of new detachment surfaces and folds and faults, all forming approximately a fan-like pattern that flank this border of the sierra. These types of deformations disappear immediately out of the W border of Sierra Nevada and consistently are in a good part attributable to the considerable uplift that Sierra Nevada undergone, especially since the late Tortonian