High-pressure granulites on top of the Beni Bousera peridotites, Rif belt, Morocco: A record of an ancient thickened crust in the Alboran domain;Granulites de haute pression au toit des péridotites du Rif (Beni Bousera, Maroc): Des témoins d'une ancienne croûte épaissie dans le domaine d'Alboran

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 153-162

  Bouybaouène, Mohamed ^a   Michard, André ^b   Goffé, Bruno ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine belt; Exhumation; Gibraltar arc; Granulites; Hercynian belt; Metamorphism; Morocco; Peridotites; Rif

Indexed keywords

GRANULITE; METAMORPHISM; PERIDOTITE;

MOROCCO;

EID: 0031820141     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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