Effects of mantle upwelling in a compressional setting: The Atlas Mountains of Morocco

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 456-461

  Teixell, Antonio ^a   Ayarza, Puy ^b   Zeyen, Hermann ^c   Fernàndez, Manel ^d   Arboleya, María Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; FOLD BELT; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; THRUST; UPWELLING;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33344454321     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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