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The ESE-WNW trending Eocene Tremp-Pamplona foreland basin is parallel to the axial zone of the Pyrenean mountain belt. Detailed field mapping, sedimentology and photo-geological mapping have resulted in palaeogeographic reconstructions of the basin, evaluation of its tectonic evolution and the construction of a basin-wide stratigraphic framework (Mutti et al. 1972, 1985, 1989; Puigdefabregas 1975; Puigdefabregas and Souquet 1986; Sgavetti 1991).
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Millington, J., Clark, J.D. (1995). Submarine canyon and associated base-of-slope sheet system: the Eocene Charo-Arro system, south-central Pyrenees, Spain. In: Pickering, K.T., Hiscott, R.N., Kenyon, N.H., Ricci Lucchi, F., Smith, R.D.A. (eds) Atlas of Deep Water Environments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1234-5_23
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