The principal paleogeographic characteristics of North and Central Africa during the
Paleozoic were the permanency of large exposed lands over central Africa, surrounded by …

The opening of the Equatorial and South Atlantic Oceans is still a matter of debate,
particularly as concerns the locations of the intraplate deformation. We propose here a …

Monogenetic basaltic volcanic fields occur worldwide in tectonic environments ranging from
extensional to convergent. Understanding similarities and differences between these fields …

Among the various university courses I took for my geoscience degree, volcanology and
structural geology motivated me by far the most. Volcanoes and deformed rocks are indeed …

The Atlas domain extends in North Africa (= Maghreb) from the Atlantic (Moroccan Atlas) to
Algeria and the Pelagian Sea (Tunisian Atlas), north of the Saharan platform. On top of a …

It has long been recognised that the deposition and deformation of the Phanerozoic cover in
the Zagros Basin (mountains plus foreland) was strongly influenced by the reactivation of old …

Abstract Recent models of South Atlantic opening history focus on early plate divergence by
incorporating intracontinental deformation, which is poorly constrained. Aiming to avoid the …

Our understanding of the tectonic development of the African continent and the interplay
between its geological provinces is hindered by unevenly distributed seismic …

Detailed information on lateral variations in lithospheric properties can aid in understanding
how surface deformation relates to deep Earth processes. The effective elastic thickness, Te …

The Berkine and Illizi basins are Palaeozoic–Mesozoic intraplate depressions that preserve
an over 7000m thick sedimentary rock record and contain world-class petroleum systems …