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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Research article
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03 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 03 Jan 2025

Post-Hercynian ultrahigh-temperature tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Middle Atlas lower crust (central Morocco) revealed by metapelitic granulite xenoliths

Abdelkader El Maz, Alain Vauchez, and Jean-Marie Dautria

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This study highlights the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the lower crust in central Morocco from the Hercynian to the Quaternary from the study of granulitic xenoliths. After a first tectono-metamorphic event, the lower crust recorded heating associated with a moderate deformation preserved in sillimanite. Later, the lower crust interacted with basanite that brought the xenoliths up to the surface. This allows us to compare the evolution of the lower crust in the Rif and the Middle Atlas.
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