[HTML][HTML] The Mid-Variscan Allochthon: Keys from correlation, partial retrodeformation and plate-tectonic reconstruction to unlock the geometry of a non-cylindrical belt

JRM Catalan, K Schulmann, JF Ghienne - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The non-cylindrical character of the Variscan Belt is established via a description of its most
salient geological characteristics and correlations among the main and relatively minor …

[HTML][HTML] The anti-atlas pan-african belt (Morocco): overview and pending questions

A Soulaimani, H Ouanaimi… - Comptes …, 2018 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Between the High Atlas and the Saharan platform, the Anti-Atlas of Morocco offers
large exposures of Precambrian rocks beneath the moderately folded Paleozoic series …

Provenance and source-to-sink of lower-middle Jurassic sediments from Hinterland mounts to NW-Gondwana hyper-extended passive margin (Prerif sub-domain …

H Kairouani, MN Zaghloul, A Abbassi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work deals with the provenance of lower-middle Jurassic successions
belonging to the External Prerif Foreland basin, which remains till now misunderstood and …

Episodic magmatism during the growth of a Neoproterozoic oceanic arc (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

A Triantafyllou, J Berger, JM Baele, N Mattielli… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present an integrated study combining detailed field, geochronological and geochemical
data of a Neoproterozoic intra-oceanic arc systems exposed in the Pan-African belt of the …

From Pan-African transpression to Cadomian transtension at the West African margin: new U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

E Errami, U Linnemann, M Hofmann, A Gärtner… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro massif in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco
demonstrate a link between Pan-African transpressive collision at c. 600 Ma and …

[HTML][HTML] Widespread Cadomian–Pan-African Ediacaran magmatism across the Moroccan Meseta: Implication for the geodynamic evolution of the NW Gondwana …

M Ouabid, CJ Garrido - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Moroccan Meseta constitutes a key peri-Gondwanan and Variscan terranes
linking the branches between the SW European Cadomian and the north West African …

Insights into the deep structure of the Bou Azzer-El Graara inlier (Central Anti-Atlas, Morocco): inference from high-resolution magnetic data, and geodynamic …

M Jaffal, A Soulaimani, S Ilmen, F Anzar, A Kchikach… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bou Azzer-El Graara inlier (BAEI) in the Central Anti-Atlas has been extensively
studied due to its famous Pan-African ophiolite and its great mineral potential. In 1998, an …

An upper Ediacaran glacial period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif)–sedimentology, geochronology and provenance

U Linnemann, M Hofmann, A Gärtner, J Gärtner… - Geological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
In the Cadomian orogenic belt a package of glacigenic sedimentary deposits have been
recently described in the Armorican Massif (Normandy, France). The Granville Tillite …

The Ordovician record of North and West Africa: unravelling sea-level variations, Gondwana tectonics, and the glacial impact

JF Ghienne, H Abdallah, R Deschamps, M Guiraud… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Ordovician of North and West Africa comprises three main transgressive–
regressive sequences understood as 'second-order'cycles of 10–15 myr duration. Tide-to …

Late Cadomian rifting of the NW Gondwana margin and the reworking of Precambrian crust–evidence from bimodal magmatism in the early Paleozoic Moroccan …

M Ouabid, CJ Garrido, H Ouali, J Harvey… - International Geology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Meseta Goaïda magmatism, which occurs as gabbro, dolerite and rhyolitic
intrusions in the Neoproterozoic basement and Cambrian platform sedimentary series of the …