Cardona anticline

The Cardona detachment uses the Late Eocene Cardona salt level to fold the Cardona, Súria and Oló-Callús detachment anticlines above it. The shortening was transferred from north across the Puig-reig ramp above which the Puig-reig anticline developed.

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