Rates of Quaternary deformation in the Ouarzazate Basin (Southern Atlas Front, Morocco)

<p>Recent studies have shown that the uplift of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains resulted from a combination of crustal shortening and mantle thermal processes in the interior of the African plate. Within this framework, to gain insight into the dynamics of these processes in recent times, we inve...

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Main Authors: Àlvar Pastor Castilla, Antonio Teixell, María Luisa Arboleya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) 2013-01-01
Series:Annals of Geophysics
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Online Access:http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/4940