Quantitative Meso-/Cenozoic development of the eastern Central Atlantic continental shelf, western High Atlas, Morocco

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225-276

  Zühlke, Rainer ^a   Bouaouda, Mohammed Said ^b   Ouajhain, Brahim ^b   Bechstädt, Thilo ^a   Leinfelder, Reinhold ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agadir Basin; Basin modeling; Cenozoic; Central Atlantic; Compositional accommodation analysis; Continental margin; Intra plate compression; Mesozoic; Morocco; Ridge push; Subsidence trends

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL SHELF; MESOZOIC; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; HIGH ATLAS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

ANISIA; TITHONIA;

EID: 53949086102     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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