Capote, RamónVillamor, P.Tsige, Meaza2016-09-192016-09-191996http://hdl.handle.net/10272/12648Alentejo-Plasencia fault was active during the alpine compressional phases with a sinistral strike-slip movement in two main stages. The fault geometry was straight and no important bendings formed during Paleogene, when the maximum shortening direction was close to N-S or NNE-SSW. During Miocene (Middle Aragonian) and related to the Neocastellana tectonic phase, the Alentejo-Plasencia fault still moved as a sinistraI strike-slip due to a NW-SE compression, but the Extremadura sector of the fault curved and bends formed along the fault at certain points where important lithologic changes were present. Several restraining and releasing bends formed; these latter creating pull-apart basins, some of them filled with continental clastic sediments. Most of the fault displacement (about 3 Km.) seems to be related to the alpine tectonics. The small displacement compared with the fault length is coherent with its location on a co//s/ona/ area forelandspaAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Strike-slip faultPull-apart basinRestrainig bendAlpineCollisionAlentejo-PlasenciaHesperian Massifjournal articleopen access