Seismic stratigraphy of the NW Moroccan Atlantic continental shelf and Quaternary deformation at the offshore termination of the southern Rif front;Stratigraphie sismique du plateau continental NW atlantique marocain et déformations quaternaires à la terminaison occidentale du front sud-rifain

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 731-740

  Maad, Nissrine ^a,b,c   Le Roy, Pascal ^a,b   Sahabi, Mohamed ^c   Gutscher, Marc André ^a,b   Hssain, M ^d   Babonneau, Nathalie ^a,b   Rabineau, Marina ^a,b   Lanoë, Brigitte Van Vliet ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d ONHYM   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Atlantic margin; Continental shelf; Gulf of Cadiz; Morocco; Quaternary; Seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT; FOLDING; NAPPE; OUTCROP; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CADIZ; MOROCCO; RIF;

EID: 77956966328     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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