Azañón, José MiguelCrespo Blanc, AnaGarcía Dueñas, V.Sánchez Gómez, Mario2016-08-292016-08-291996http://hdl.handle.net/10272/12565In the central Betics, the Adra unit represents the higher unit of the Alpujarride complex. This unit is bounded by Miocene low-angle normal faults. The lithostratigraphic sequence of Adra unit includes, from bottom to top: dark schists with garnet, light coloured schists (Palaeozoic), phyllites (Permo-Triassic) and carbonated rocks (upper Triassic). North-vergent recumbent folds have been recognized within the unit. They affect the lithological boundaries, the metamorphic isogrades and the main foliation, this latter formed during a decompression, that is with an extensional character. These data suggest the alternance of contractional and extensional events during the tectonic evolution of the Alpujarride ComplexspaAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Alpujarride complexAdra extensional unitTectonometamorphic evolutionCompression-extension alternancejournal articleopen access