Sanz de Galdeano, CarlosLópez Garrido, Ángel Carlos2015-02-112015-02-111999http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9868The 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 TortonianspaAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Gravitational collapseTectonic thinningTortonian-Quaternary upliftBetic Cordillerajournal articleopen access