Pressure-temperature-time constraints on the Maghrebide mountain building: Evidence from the Rif-Betic transect (Morocco, Spain), Algerian correlations, and geodynamic implications

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 338, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 92-114

  Michard, André ^a   Negro, François ^a   Saddiqi, Omar ^b   Bouybaouene, Mohamed L ^c   Chalouan, Ahmed ^c   Montigny, Raymond ^d   Goffé, Bruno ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES AIN CHOCK   (Morocco)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine peridotites; Geochronology; Gibraltar Arc; Mediterranean; Metamorphism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; RIF; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33344455150     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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