Publications - Cornell Morocco Project


Beauchamp, W., Barazangi, M., Demnati, A. and El Alji, M., Intracontinental rifting and inversion: Missour Basin and Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull., 80, 1459-1482, 1996. 

Beauchamp, W., Barazangi, M., Demnati, A., and El Alji, M., Inversion of synrift normal faults in the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, The Leading Edge, 16, 1171-1175, 1997. 

Beauchamp, W., Allmendinger, R., Barazangi, M., Demnati, A., El Alji, M., and Dahmani, M., Inversion tectonics and the evolution of the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, based on a geological-geophysical transect, Tectonics, 18, 163-184, 1999.

Beauchamp, W., Superposed folding resulting from inversion of a synrift accommodation zone, Atlas Mountains, Morocco, in K. R. McClay, ed., Thrust Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Systems: AAPG Memoir 82, p. 635-646, 2004.

Calvert, A., Gomez, F., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Jabbour, N., Ibenbrahim, A., Demnati, A., An integrated geophysical investigation of recent seismicity in the Al-Hoceima region of North Morocco, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87(3), 637-651, 1997.

Calvert, A., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Roecker, S., Mourabit, T., Vidal, F., Alguacil, G., and Jabour, N., Geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Alboran region of the western Mediterranean: constraints from travel time tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 10871-10898, 2000.

Calvert, A., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Roecker, S., Mourabit, T., Vidal, F., Alguacil, G., and Jabour, N., Propagation of regional seismic phases (Lg and Sn) and Pn velocity structure along the Africa-Iberia plate boundary zone, Geophysical Journal International, 142, 384-408, 2000.

Fadil, A., Vernant, P., McClusky, S., Reilinger, R., Gomez, F., Sari, D. B., Mourabit, T., Feigl, K., and Barazangi, M., Active tectonics of the western Mediterranean: Geodetic evidence for roll back of a delaminated subcontinental lithospheric slab beneath the Rif Mountains, Morocco, Geology, 34(7), 529-532, 2006.

Gomez, F., Barazangi, M., and Bensaid, M., Active tectonism in the intracontinental Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco: Synchronous crustal shortening and extension, J. Geol. Soc. London, 153, 389-402, 1996.

Gomez, F., Allmendinger, R., Barazangi, M., Er-Raji, A., and Dahmani, M., Crustal shortening and vertical strain partitioning in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Tectonics, 17, 520-533, 1998.

Gomez, F., Barazangi, M., and Demnati, A., Structure and evolution of the Neogene Guercif Basin at the junction of the Middle Atlas Mountains and the Rif thrust belt, Morocco, AAPG Bulletin, 84, 1340-1364, 2000. 

Gomez, F., Barazangi, M., and Beauchamp, W., Role of the Atlas Mountains (northwest Africa) within the African-Eurasian plate-boundary zone, Geology, 28, 769-864, 2000. 

Plafcan, D., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Ibenbrahim, A., and Cherkaoui, T-E., Regional discrimination of chemical explosions and earthquakes: A case study in Morocco, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87(5), 1126-1139, 1997.

Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Tadili, B., Ramdani, M., Ibenbrahim, A., Ben Sari, D., and El Alami, S.O., Sn to Sg conversion and focusing along the Atlantic margin, Morocco: Implications for earthquake hazard evaluation, Geophys. Res. Let., 20, 1503-1506, 1993.

Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Ibenbrahim, A., and Demnati, A., Geophysical evidence for lithospheric delamination beneath the Alboran Sea and Rif-Betic mountains, Nature, 379, 785-790, 1996.

Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Tadili, B., Ramdani, M., Ibenbrahim, A., and Ben Sari, D., Three-dimensional upper mantle structure beneath the intraplate Atlas and interplate Rif mountains of Morocco, J. Geophy. Res., 101, 3125-3138, 1996.

See also: Middle East and North Africa Project Publications


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