Imaging a lithospheric detachment at the continent-ocean crustal transition off Morocco

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 686-698

  Maillard, Agnès ^a   Malod, J ^a   Thiébot, Emmanuelle ^a   Klingelhoefer, Frauke ^a   Réhault, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Deep seismic profiling; Lithospheric detachment; Mantle exhumation; Moroccan Atlantic margin

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEISMIC PROFILING; LITHOSPHERIC DETACHMENT; MANTLE EXHUMATION; MOROCCO;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC COAST [MOROCCO]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AFRICA]; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 30744457892     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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