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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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| 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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