Intracontinental rifting and inversion: Missour basin and Atlas mountains, Morocco

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1459-1482

  Beauchamp, Weldon ^a   Barazangi, Muawia ^a   Demnati, Ahmed ^b   El Alji, Mohamed ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Off Natl Rech d'Exploitations P   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; MAPPING; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TECTONICS;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; INTERMONTANE BASIN; INTRACONTINENTAL RIFTING; MESOZOIC ATLAS PALEORIFTS; MISSOUR BASIN; MOROCCO;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC INVERSION; UPLIFT;

MOROCCO, ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO, MISSOUR BASIN;

EID: 0030235858     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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