Post-Variscan tectonics in eastern anti-atlas (Morocco)

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 481-489

  Malusà, Marco G ^a,b   Polino, Riccardo ^b   Feroni, Andrea Cerrina ^b   Ellero, Alessandro ^b   Ottria, Giuseppe ^b   Baidder, Lahssen ^c   Musumeci, Giovanni ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c HASSAN II UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; APATITE; CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; NEOGENE; RIFT ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

AFRICA; ANTI-ATLAS; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 36549072036     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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