Field reconnaissance of the Anti-Atlas coastline, Morocco: Fluvial and marine evidence for Late Cenozoic uplift

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 297-310

  Westaway, Rob ^a   Aït Hssaine, Ali ^b   Demir, Tuncer ^c   Beck, Anthony ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IBN ZOHR UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti Atlas; fluvial terraces; marine terraces; Morocco; Pleistocene; Pliocene; uplift

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HISTORICAL RECORD; ISOSTASY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RELIEF; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; ANTI ATLAS; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 69249142935     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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