Crustal structure of the NW Moroccan margin from deep seismic data (SISMAR Cruise)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 495-503

  Jaffal, Mohammed ^a   Klingelhoefer, Frauke ^b   Matias, Luis ^c   Teixeira, Fernando ^c   Amrhar, Mostafa ^d  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES GUÉLIZ   (Morocco)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Deep seismic; Gravity; Morocco; OBS; Passive margin; Velocity model

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 67449095816     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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