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| Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Biari, Youssef; Sahabi, Mohamed; Aslanian, Daniel; Schnabel, Michael; Matias, Luis; Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Funck, Thomas; Gutscher, Marc-andre; Reichert, Christian; Austin, James A.. |
| Deep seismic data represent a key to understand the geometry and mechanism of continental rifting. The passive continental margin of NW-Africa is one of the oldest on earth, formed during the Upper Triassic–Lower Liassic rifting of the central Atlantic Ocean over 200 Ma. We present new and existing wide-angle and reflection seismic data from four study regions along the margin located in the south offshore DAKHLA, on the central continental margin offshore Safi, in the northern Moroccan salt basin, and in the Gulf of Cadiz. The thickness of unthinned continental crust decreases from 36 km in the North to about 27 km in the South. Crustal thinning takes place over a region of 150 km in the north and only 70 km in the south. The North Moroccan Basin is... |
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Palavras-chave: Moroccan continental margin; Wide-angle seismic; Passive margins; Deep structure; Plate reconstruction. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00316/42685/42058.pdf |
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| Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Gutscher, M. -a.; Rabineau, Marina; Biari, Youssef; Hafid, M.; Duarte, J. C.; Schnabel, M.; Baltzer, Agnes; Pedoja, K.; Le Roy, P.; Reichert, C.; Sahabi, M.. |
| Re-examination of marine geophysical data from the continental margin of West Morocco reveals a broad zone characterized by deformation, active faults and updoming offshore the High Atlas (Morocco margin), situated next to the Tafelney Plateau. Both seismic reflection and swath-bathymetric data, acquired during Mirror marine geophysical survey in 2011, indicate recent uplift of the margin including uplift of the basement. This deformation, which we propose to name the Atlantic Atlas tectonic arch, is interpreted to result largely through uplift of the basement, which originated during the Central Atlantic rifting stage - or even during phases of Hercynian deformation. This has produced a large number of closely spaced normal and reverse faults, “piano key... |
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Palavras-chave: Atlas Mountain belt; Tectonic arch; Moroccan passive margin; Submerged terraces; Uplift. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00378/48975/49382.pdf |
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| Pinheiro, Joao Marcelo; Schnurle, Philippe; Evain, Mikael; Afilhado, A.; Gallais, Flora; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Loureiro, Afonso; Fuck, R.; Soares, J.; Cupertino, J. A.; Viana, A.; Rabineau, Marina; Baltzer, Agnes; Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Dias, N.; Moulin, Maryline; Aslanian, Daniel; Morvan, Laetitia; Maze, Jean-pierre; Pierre, Delphine; Pitel-roudaut, Mathilde; Rio, I; Alves, D.; Barros Junior, P.; Biari, Youssef; Corela, C.; Crozon, Jacques; Duarte, J. L.; Ducatel, Cecile; Falcao, C.; Fernagu, Philippe; Le Piver, David; Mokeddem, Zohra; Pelleau, Pascal; Rigoti, C.; Roest, Walter; Roudaut, Mickael. |
| The structure and nature of the crust underlying the Camamu-Almada-Jequitinhonha-Sergipe-Alagoas basins System, in the NE Brazilian margin, were investigated based on the interpretation of 12 wide-angle seismic profiles acquired during the SALSA (Sergipe ALagoas Seismic Acquisition) experiment in 2014. In this work, we present two 220-km-long NW-SE combined wide-angle and reflection seismic profiles, SL 01 and SL 02, that have been acquired using 15 ocean-bottom-seismometers along each profile, offshore the southern part of the Sergipe Alagoas Basin (SAB), north of the Vaza-Barris Transfer zone. The SL 02 has a 150-km long inland continuation with 20 land-seismic-stations until the Sergipano Fold Belt (SFB). Wide-angle seismic forward modeling allows us to... |
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Palavras-chave: South Atlantic ocean; NE Brazil; Sergipe-Alagoas basin; Passive margins; Wide-angle refraction seismics; Crustal structure; Tectonic inheritance. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00461/57263/59315.pdf |
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| Biari, Youssef; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Sahabi, Mohamed; Aslanian, Daniel; Schnurle, Philippe; Berglar, K.; Moulin, Maryline; Mehdi, K.; Graindorge, D.; Evain, Mikael; Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Reichert, C.. |
| The structure of the Moroccan and Nova Scotia conjugate rifted margins is of key importance for understanding the Mesozoic break-up and evolution of the northern central Atlantic Ocean basin. Seven combined multichannel reflection (MCS) and wide-angle seismic (OBS) data profiles were acquired along the Atlantic Moroccan margin between the latitudes of 31.5° and 33° N during the MIRROR seismic survey in 2011, in order to image the transition from continental to oceanic crust, to study the variation in crustal structure and to characterize the crust under the West African Coast Magnetic Anomaly (WACMA). The data were modeled using a forward modeling approach. The final models image crustal thinning from 36 km thickness below the continent to approximately 8... |
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Palavras-chave: Moroccan continental margin; Wide-angle seismic modeling; Deep crustal structure; Ocean continent transition. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00273/38401/36726.pdf |
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| Biari, Youssef; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Sahabi, Mohamed; Funck, T.; Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Schnabel, M.; Reichert, C.; Gutscher, M-a; Bronner, Adrien; Austin, J. A.. |
| Study of the deep structure of conjugate passive continental margins combined with detailed plate kinematic reconstructions can provide constraints on the mechanisms of rifting and formation of initial oceanic crust. In this study the central Atlantic conjugate margins are compared based on compilation of wide-angle seismic profiles from NW Africa Nova Scotian and U.S. passive margins. The patterns of volcanism, crustal thickness, geometry, and seismic velocities in the transition zone suggest symmetric rifting followed by asymmetric oceanic crustal accretion. Conjugate profiles in the southern central Atlantic image differences in the continental crustal thickness. While profiles on the eastern U.S. margin are characterized by thick layers of magmatic... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep structure; Plate reconstruction; Wide-angle seismic; Passive margins. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00389/50072/50666.pdf |
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| Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Baltzer, Agnes; Rabineau, Marina; Aslanian, Daniel; Sahabi, Mohamed; Germond, Fabien; Loubrieu, Benoit; Biari, Youssef. |
| This study explores a portion of the West African margin at the junction between two well- known segments offshore Dakhla and offshore Mauritania with destructional architecture characterized by giant slides. In between these two segments, the Dakhla segment has historically been described as a constructional section. During an oceanographic Dakhla cruise (2002), high resolution seismic data, swath bathymetry and imagery were acquired around latitude 23° N, offshore Dakhla,. This new data set reveals the existence of varied and complex morphologies on the continental slope, interpreted as a "shallot-shaped" canyon, seafloor depressions or pockmarks, ridges and scarps. These morphologies are interpreted as clues of sedimentary transfers and rupture... |
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Palavras-chave: African margin; Bathymetry; Seismic interpretation; Pockmarks; Ridges; Scarps.. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00286/39736/38214.pdf |
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