Active continental subduction beneath the Betic Cordillera and the Alborán Sea

Granite pebbles from an Eocene or Oligocene conglomerate lying on a Ghomaride nappe of the Internal Zones of the Rif belt (Alboran domain, Morocco) have been dated by U/Pb on zircon at 281 Ma. No granite pluton being known in the Rif belt nor in the neighbouring Betic Cordillera, the origin of these calc-alkaline Kungurian (end of the Early Permian) granites is discussed. A provenance from a nearby unit presently drowned in the Alboran sea is likely. Comparisons with other circum-Mediterranean domains show that this late plutonism characterizes an original domain in the Variscan orogen.

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Seismic tomography of the crust and lithospheric mantle in the Betic Cordillera and Alboran Sea

Tectonophysics ◽

10.1016/s0040-1951(00)00191-8 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 329 (1-4) ◽

pp. 99-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

E Gurrı́a ◽

J Mezcua

Keyword(s):

Seismic Tomography ◽

Lithospheric Mantle ◽

Betic Cordillera ◽

Alboran Sea ◽

Alborán Sea

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Crustal thinning from the Betic Cordillera to the Alboran Sea

Geo-Marine Letters ◽

10.1007/bf02084915 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 12 (2-3) ◽

pp. 76-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

M. Torné ◽

E. Banda

Keyword(s):

Betic Cordillera ◽

Alboran Sea ◽

Crustal Thinning ◽

Alborán Sea

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Mountain Front Development by Folding and Crustal Thickening in the Internal Zone of the Betic Cordillera-Alboran Sea Boundary

Pure and Applied Geophysics ◽

10.1007/s00024-006-0157-4 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 164 (1) ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Carlos Marín-Lechado ◽

Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar ◽

Luís Roberto Rodríguez-Fernández ◽

Antonio Pedrera

Keyword(s):

Betic Cordillera ◽

Crustal Thickening ◽

Alboran Sea ◽

Internal Zone ◽

Mountain Front ◽

Alborán Sea

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Checklist of benthic marine Cyanoprokariota of Chafarinas Islands (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean). Catálogo de cianoprocariotas bentónicas marinas de las Islas Chafarinas (Mar de Alborán, Mediterráneo Occidental)

Acta Botanica Malacitana ◽

10.24310/abm.v38i0.2619 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 182-186 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Julio De la Rosa Álamos ◽

María Altamirano ◽

Marianela Zanolla

Keyword(s):

Marine Algae ◽

Western Mediterranean ◽

Alboran Sea ◽

Palabras Clave ◽

Alborán Sea

Catálogo de cianoprocariotas bentónicas marinas de las Islas Chafarinas (Mar de Alborán, Mediterráneo Occidental) Keywords: Chafarinas Islands, Cyanoprokariota, marine algae, Alboran Sea. Palabras clave: Islas Chafarinas, Cyanoprokariotas, algas marinas, Mar de Alborán.

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