Petrography and geochemistry of granitoid pebbles from the oligocene-miocene deposits of the internal Rifian Chain (Morocco): A possible new hypothesis of provenance and paleogeographical implications

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-272

  Gigliuto, Lisa Gioconda ^a   Ouazani Touhami, Abdelouahed ^b   Puglisi, Diego ^a   Puglisi, Giuseppa ^a   Zaghloul, Mohamed Najib ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Granitoid pebbles; Morocco; Oligocene Miocene deposits; Petrography; Rif Chain

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PEBBLE; PROVENANCE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; RIF;

EID: 3242881168     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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