Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0066-z, published online 19 February 2018.

In the version of this Article originally published, the author list and journal name were incorrect in ref. 23, the reference should have read: ‘Neres, M. et al. Lithospheric deformation in the Africa–Iberia plate boundary: improved neotectonic modeling testing a basal-driven Alboran plate. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 121, 6566–6596 (2016).’ This has been corrected in the online versions.