List of Figures

1. Map of western Europe

2. Map of the Pyrenees combining topography and geology

3. Restored map

4. Major extensional geodynamic events

5. Subsidence curves

6. Deep crustal-scale reflection profiles

7. Sediment flow diagram

8. Eastern Pyrenees

9. Stratigraphic panel across the Eastern Pyrenees and its related foreland basin

10. Balanced section across the southeastern Pyrenees

11. Syntectonic foreland sediments

12. Rates of shortening

13. Timing of deformation

14. Post-collisional history of Eastern Pyrenees and Valencia Trough

15. NE corner of Iberian Peninsula

16. N-S lithospheric transect

17. E-W lithospheric transect