Deep resistivity cross section of the intraplate Atlas Mountains (NW Africa): New evidence of anomalous mantle and related Quaternary volcanism

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Anahnah, Farida ^a   Galindo Zaldívar, Jesus ^a,b   Chalouan, Ahmed ^c   Pedrera, Antonio ^d   Ruano, Patricia ^a   Pous, Jaume ^e   Heise, Wiebke ^f   Ruiz Constan, Ana ^g   Benmakhlouf, Mohamed ^h   López Garrido, Angel Carlos ^b   Ahmamou, M'Fedal ^c   De Galdeano, Carlos Sanz ^b   Arzate, Jorge ⁱ   Ibarra, Pedro ^d   González Castillo, Lourdes ^a   Bouregba, Naoual ^c   Corbo, Fernando ⁱ   Asensio, Eva ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^g UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^h ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

ⁱ CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

2D INVERSION; BASALTIC VOLCANISM; CARBONATE ROCK; CROSS SECTION; DATA DIMENSIONALITY; DATA SETS; HIGH ELEVATION; INDUCTION VECTORS; INVERSION TECTONICS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MAGNETOTELLURIC DATA; METAPELITES; MIDDLE ATLAS; OLIGOCENE; RESISTIVITY STRUCTURE;

TECTONICS;

BATHOLITH; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; DATA SET; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; INVERSION TECTONICS; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE PROCESS; METAPELITE; QUATERNARY; TRIASSIC; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANISM;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 80054968432     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002859     Document Type: Article

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