Neogene exhumation of the Marrakech High Atlas (Morocco) recorded by apatite fission-track analysis

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 75-82

  Balestrieri, Maria Laura ^a   Moratti, Giovanna ^a   Bigazzi, Giulio ^b   Algouti, Ahmed ^c  

^a SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; EURASIAN PLATE; EXHUMATION; FAULT ZONE; FISSION TRACK DATING; MODELING; NEOGENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 63049123143     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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