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TI Deep structure of the continental margin and basin off Greater Kabylia, Algeria – New insights from wide-angle seismic data modeling and multichannel seismic interpretation
BT 
AF AIDI, Chafik
   BESLIER, Marie-Odile
   YELLES-CHAOUCHE, Abdel Karim
   KLINGELHOEFER, Frauke
   BRACENE, Rabah
   GALVE, Audrey
   BOUNIF, Abdallah
   SCHENINI, Laure
   HAMAI, Lamine
   SCHNURLE, Philippe
   DJELLIT, Hamou
   SAGE, Francoise
   CHARVIS, Philippe
   DEVERCHERE, Jacques
AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:3;5:4;6:2;7:5;8:2;9:1;10:3;11:1;12:2;13:2;14:6;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-REM-GM-LAD;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;11:;12:;13:;14:;
C1 CRAAG, Algiers, Algeria.
   Univ Cote Azur, CNRS, Observ Cote Azur, IRD,Geoazur, Nice Sophia Antipolis, France.
   IFREMER, Plouzane, France.
   DXP Boumerdes, Sonatrach, Boumerdes, Algeria.
   Univ Sci & Technol Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria.
   IUEM, UBO CNRS UMR6538, Geosci Ocean, Plouzane, France.
C2 CRAAG, ALGERIA
   CNRS, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   SONATRACH, ALGERIA
   USTBH, ALGERIA
   UBO, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LAD
   PDG-REM-GM-LGS
UM LGO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 2.764
TC 30
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00425/53677/54519.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MARADJA
   SPIRAL
BO Le Suroît
   L'Atalante
DE ;Mediterranean Sea;Algerian margin;Crustal structure;Tectonic inversion;Post-accretion magmatism;Deep seismics
AB During the Algerian-French SPIRAL survey aimed at investigating the deep structure of the Algerian margin and basin, two coincident wide-angle and reflection seismic profiles were acquired in central Algeria, offshore Greater Kabylia, together with gravimetric, bathymetric and magnetic data. This ~260 km-long offshore-onshore profile spans the Balearic basin, the central Algerian margin and the Greater Kabylia block up to the southward limit of the internal zones onshore. Results are obtained from modeling and interpretation of the combined data sets. The Algerian basin offshore Greater Kabylia is floored by a thin oceanic crust (~4 km) with P-wave velocities ranging between 5.2 and 6.8 km/s. In the northern Hannibal High region, the atypical 3-layer crustal structure is interpreted as volcanic products stacked over a thin crust similar to that bordering the margin and related to Miocene post-accretion volcanism. These results support a two-step back-arc opening of the west-Algerian basin, comprising oceanic crust accretion during the first southward stage, and a magmatic and probably tectonic reworking of this young oceanic basement during the second, westward, opening phase. The structure of the central Algerian margin is that of a narrow (~70 km), magma-poor rifted margin, with a wider zone of distal thinned continental crust than on the other margin segments. There is no evidence for mantle exhumation in the sharp ocean-continent transition, but transcurrent movements during the second opening phase may have changed its initial geometry. The Plio-Quaternary inversion of the margin related to ongoing convergence between Africa and Eurasia is expressed by a blind thrust system under the margin rising toward the surface at the slope toe, and by an isostatic disequilibrium resulting from opposite flexures of two plates decoupled at the continental slope. This disequilibrium is likely responsible for the peculiar asymmetrical shape of the crustal neck that may thus be a characteristic feature of inverted rifted margins. 
PY 2018
PD MAR
SO Tectonophysics
SN 0040-1951
PU Elsevier Science Bv
VL 728-729
UT 000430762700001
BP 1
EP 22
DI 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.007
ID 53677
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