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associated with the westward emplacement of the
Gibraltar Arc and formation of the Gulf of Cádiz accretionary wedge. The current activity of the subduction is unclear, with some advocating ongoing active subduction. Others suggest that subduction is inactive and that a new plate boundary has recently
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Bartolome, R.; Gracia, E.; Stich, D.; Martinez-Loriente, S.; Klaeschen, D.; Mancilla, F.; Lo Iacona, C.; Danobeitia, J.J.; Zitellini, N. (2012). "Evidence for active strike-slip faulting along the
Eurasia-Africa convergence zone: Implications for seismic hazard in the southwest Iberian margin".
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Pinheiro, L.M.; Ivanov, M.K.; Sautkin, A.; Akhmanov, G.; Magalhaes, V.H.; Volkonskaya, A.; Monteiro, J.H.; Somoza, L.; Gardner, J.; Hamouni, N.; Cunha, M.R. (2003). "Mud volcanism in the Gulf of Cadiz: results from the TTR-10 cruise".
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Koulali, A.; Ouzar, D.; Tahayt, A.; King, R.W.; Vernant, P.; Reilinger, R.E.; McClusky, S.; Mourabit, T.; Davila, J.M.; Amraoui, N. (2011). "New GPS constraints on active defor- mation along the Africa–Iberia plate boundary".
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Gutscher, M.-A.; Dominguez, S.; Westbrook, G.; Le Roy, P.; Rosas, F.M.; Duarte, J.C.; Terrinha, P.; Miranda, J.M.; Gailler, A.; Sallares, V.; Bartolome, R. (2012). "The
Gibraltar subduction: A decade of new geophysical data".
261:. Oblique convergence between Africa (Nubia) and Iberia (Eurasia) occurs here at about 4 mm (0.16 in) per year in a NW–SE direction. Some have suggested this may also be causing active thrusting in the Gulf of Cádiz.
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Zitellini, N.; Gracia, E.; Matias, L.; Terrinha, P.; Abreu, M.A.; DeAlteriis, G.; Henriet, J.P.; Danobeitia, J.J.; Masson, D.; Mulder, T.; Ramella, R.; Somoza, L.; Diez, S. (2009).
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Gutscher, M.-A.; Malod, J.; Rehault, J.-P.; Contrucci, I.; Klingelhoefer, F.; Mendes-Victor, L.; Spakman, W. (2002). "Evidence for active subduction beneath
Gibraltar".
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Stich, D.; Serpelloni, E.; Mancilla; Morales, J. (2006). "Kinematics of the Iberia– Maghreb plate contact from seismic moment tensors and GPS observations".
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collected from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cádiz were reviewed in 2011. There were reported the following species of chemosymbiotic bivalves of
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It is now well established that the whole area is under compressive deformation and that mud volcanism and processes associated with the escape of
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