Pursuing an innovative global approach this unique book provides an updated review of the
geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its
location close to successive plate margins Iberia has played a pivotal role in the geodynamic
evolution of the Gondwanan Rheic Pangea Tethys and Eurasian plates over the last 600 Ma of
Earth¿s history. The geological record starts with the amalgamation of Gondwana in the
Neoproterozoic which was succeeded by the rifting and spreading of the Rheic ocean its demise
which led to the amalgamation of Pangea in the late Paleozoic the rifting and spreading of
several arms of the Neotethys ocean in the Mesozoic Era and their ongoing closure which was
responsible for the Alpine orogeny. The significant advances in the last 20 years have
increasingly attracted international interest in exploring the geology of the Iberian
Peninsula. This volume focuses on the Cenozoic basins of the Iberian Geology and consequently
the most recent sedimentary features in the Iberian Geology apart of the active ones. In this
book you will find a detailed explanation of the alpine foreland basins the extension of the
west Mediterranean as well as the latest magmatism in Iberia.
