A late Cenozoic age for long-wavelength surface uplift of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 102-107

  Babault, Julien ^a   Teixell, Antonio ^a   Arboleya, Maria Luisa ^a   Charroud, Mohammed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; PIEDMONT; PLIOCENE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 41249096229     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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