New geophysical and geological evidence for the present day southernmost active deformational front of the Rif thrust-and-fold belt and the oceanic accretionary prism of Cadiz: The Dhar Doum-Lalla Zahra fault, Northwestern Atlantic Coastal Morocco

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2411-2422

  Toto, E A ^a   El Miloudi, A ^a   El Basri, M ^a   Hafid, M ^a   Zouhri, L ^b   El Mouraouah, S ^a   Benammi, M ^a   El Mouraouah, A ^c   Iben Brahim, A ^c   Birouk, A ^c   Kasmi, M ^c  

^a IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE LASALLE BEAUVAIS   (France)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Dhar Doum Lalla Zahra fault; Electric resistivity tomography; Morocco; Rif belt; Seismic refraction

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACTIVE FAULTING; DHAR DOUM-LALLA ZAHRA FAULT; ELECTRIC RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GROWTH STRATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SEISMIC REFRACTION; MOROCCO; NEOTECTONICS; NORTH-WESTERN ATLANTIC; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION DATA; STRIKE-SLIP COMPONENT; STUDY AREAS; THRUST FAULTS;

DEPOSITS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; PRISMS; REFRACTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULTING;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

ATLANTIC COAST [MOROCCO]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AFRICA]; MOROCCO;

EID: 84870394044     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1692-1     Document Type: Article

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