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Research article
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30 Apr 2020
Research article |
| 30 Apr 2020
| 30 Apr 2020
Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the Alboran Basin (Western Mediterranean)
Manfred Lafosse
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, INSU-CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
Tectonic and Structural Geology groups, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Elia d'Acremont
Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, INSU-CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
Alain Rabaute
Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, INSU-CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
Ferran Estrada
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Continental Margin Group,
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Martin Jollivet-Castelot
Labratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG), Univ. Lille, CNRS, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187,
59000, Lille,
France
Juan Tomas Vazquez
Juan-Tomas Vazquez, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, 29640 Fuengirola, Spain
Jesus Galindo-Zaldivar
Dpto. de Geodinámica, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Granada,
Spain
Gemma Ercilla
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Continental Margin Group,
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Belen Alonso
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Continental Margin Group,
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Jeroen Smit
Tectonic and Structural Geology groups, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abdellah Ammar
Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed V, Avenue Ibn-Batouta, B. P. 1014, Rabat, Morocco
Christian Gorini
Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, INSU-CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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Short summary
The Alboran Sea is one of the most active region of the Mediterranean Sea. There, the basin architecture records the effect of the Africa–Eurasia plates convergence. We evidence a Pliocene transpression and a more recent Pleistocene tectonic reorganization. We propose that main driving force of the deformation is the Africa–Eurasia convergence, rather than other geodynamical processes. It highlights the evolution and the geometry of the present-day Africa–Eurasia plate boundary.
The Alboran Sea is one of the most active region of the Mediterranean Sea. There, the basin...
