Plio-Quaternary reactivation of the Neogene margin off NW Algiers, Algeria: The Khayr al Din bank

Tectonophysics

Volumn 475, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-116

  Yelles, Abdelkarim ^a   Domzig, Anne ^b,c   Déverchère, Jacques ^b,c   Bracène, Rabah ^d   Mercier de Lépinay, Bernard ^e   Strzerzynski, Pierre ^b,c   Bertrand, Guillaume ^f   Boudiaf, Azzedine ^a   Winter, Thierry ^f   Kherroubi, Abdelaziz ^a   Le Roy, Pascal ^b,c   Djellit, Hamou ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^d SONATRACH   (Algeria)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^f BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Active fault related folds; Africa Eurasia convergence; Algerian margin; Contractional reactivation; Ocean continent transition; Seismic hazard; Seismic reflection; Tilting

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

ACTIVE FAULT; ALGERIAN MARGIN; CONTRACTIONAL REACTIVATION; EURASIA; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; TILTING;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; ANTICLINE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EN ECHELON STRUCTURE; FOLDING; NEOGENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; RUPTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AFRICA; ALGER [ALGERIA]; ALGERIA; ALGIERS; BOUMERDES; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 70249139158     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.030     Document Type: Article

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