P wave tomography of the mantle under the Alpine‐Mediterranean area

C Piromallo, A Morelli - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We study the upper mantle P wave velocity structure below the Euro‐Mediterranean area,
down to 1000 km depth, by seismic travel time tomography. We invert summary residuals …

Post-collisional transition from subduction-to intraplate-type magmatism in the westernmost Mediterranean: evidence for continental-edge delamination of …

S Duggen, K Hoernle, P van den Bogaard… - Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Post-collisional magmatism in the southern Iberian and northwestern African continental
margins contains important clues for the understanding of a possible causal connection …

Seismic traveltime tomography of the crust and lithosphere

N Rawlinson, M Sambridge - Advances in geophysics, 2003 - books.google.com
Seismic data represent one of the most valuable resources for investigating the internal
structure and composition of the earth. One of the first people to deduce earth structure from …

Tectonic shortening and topography in the central High Atlas (Morocco)

A Teixell, ML Arboleya, M Julivert, M Charroud - Tectonics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Three cross sections of the Moroccan High Atlas illustrate the structural geometry and
relationship between tectonic shortening and topography in this Cenozoic intracontinental …

The Betic orogen and the Iberian–African boundary in the Gulf of Cadiz: geological evolution (central North Atlantic)

A Maldonado, L Somoza, L Pallarés - Marine Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
The study of the Gulf of Cadiz on the basis of multichannel seismic profiles and wells
illustrates the stratigraphy and tectonics. The evolution of the southern Iberian margins was …

The intracontinental High Atlas belt: geological overview and pending questions

H Skikra, K Amrouch, A Soulaimani, R Leprêtre… - Arabian Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The High Atlas intracontinental belt is an inverted rift formed along the Northwest
African Craton, between the Central Atlantic Ocean and the Africa-Eurasia plates' …

Geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Alboran region of the western Mediterranean: Constraints from travel time tomography

A Calvert, E Sandvol, D Seber… - Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A number of different geodynamic models have been proposed to explain the extension that
occurred during the Miocene in the Alboran Sea region of the western Mediterranean …

The Canary Islands origin: a unifying model

F Anguita, F Hernán - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2000 - Elsevier
A new model, partially based on the three most widely cited previous hypotheses, is
proposed to explain the genesis of the Canary Islands. From the hotspot hypothesis it retains …

Crustal versus asthenospheric origin of relief of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco

Y Missenard, H Zeyen… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the respective roles of crustal tectonic shortening and asthenospheric
processes on the topography of the High Atlas and surrounding areas (Morocco). The …

The geology of Spain

W Gibbons, T Moreno - 2002 - books.google.com
The Society makes every effort to ensure that the scientific and production quality of its
books matches that of its journals. Since 1997, all book proposals have been refereed by …