Reactivated lithospheric-scale discontinuities localize dynamic uplift of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-38

  Miller, Meghan S ^a   Becker, Thorsten W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MODEL-BASED OPC; MOUNTAIN BELTS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; TECTONIC SHORTENING;

FAULTING; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DISCONTINUITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OROGENY; S-WAVE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM; WAVE SPLITTING; INVERSION TECTONICS; LITHOSPHERE; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENIC BELT;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO; HIGH ATLAS;

EID: 84891649888     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34959.1     Document Type: Article

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