Vertical movements at the fringe of the West African Craton: First zircon fission track datings from the Anti-Atlas Precambrian basement, Morocco

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-77

  Sebti, Samira ^a   Saddiqi, Omar ^a   El Haimer, Fatima Zahra ^a   Michard, André ^b   Ruiz, Geoffrey ^c   Bousquet, Romain ^d   Baidder, Lahssen ^a   Frizon de Lamotte, Dominique ^e  

^a HASSAN II UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b université de Neuchârue Émile Argand ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anti Atlas; Fission tracks; Morocco; Uplift; Variscan folding; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CARBONIFEROUS; EDIACARAN; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLDING; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; UPLIFT; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84983724111     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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