...4.1. TECTONIC FRAMEWORK AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE PYRENEES The Pyrenees extend over 400km between France and Spain and were formed from the collision of the Iberian Plate into southwest Eurasian plate during the Late Cretaceous to Miocene ( Fig. 4.1 ). The Pyrenean deformation associated...

..., the extreme perturbation of the hydrological cycle in southern Spain at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary represents a high-magnitude climate signal that leaves a strong signal in the stratigraphy. Such signals had previously, and classically, been ascribed to hinterland tectonics (e.g., Dreyer, 1993 , see...