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The Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean) revisited with a view from the Moroccan Margin
Author(s) -
Mauffret A.,
Ammar A.,
Gorini C.,
Jabour H.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
terra nova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.353
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1365-3121
pISSN - 0954-4879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00734.x
Subject(s) - geology , basement , subduction , structural basin , extensional definition , balearic islands , seismology , paleontology , mediterranean climate , margin (machine learning) , tectonics , archaeology , cartography , machine learning , computer science , geography , history
This paper presents a new depth to acoustic basement map based on a grid of seismic profiles. In the Western Alboran Basin the basement is more than 10 km deep. An examination of a seismic profile of this region suggests that Late Oligocene–Early Miocene 5 km thick synrift formation has been accumulated in this basin. This West Alboran basin has been formed in an extensional setting, but in a fore‐arc position, south of the Balearic Islands then westwards transported behind a subduction zone.