Skip to content
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Main features of the deep structure by local earthquake tomography and active tectonics: Case of Rif Mountain (morocco) and Betic Cordillera (Spain)
Journal of Seismology, Volume 18, No. 2, Year 2014
Notification
URL copied to clipboard!
Description
Within the Spain and Moroccan networks, a large volume of seismic data has been collected and used for investigating the lithosphere in the Betic-Rif Cordillera. The present study has two main goals: (1) Use the most actual seismological data from recent earthquakes in the Betic-Rif arc for investigating the lithosphere through the application of seismic local tomography techniques. (2) Define the possible structural blocks and explain the GPS velocities perturbation in this region. The resolution tests results indicate that the calculated images gave a close true structure for the studied regions from 5- to 60-km depth. The resulting tomographic image shows that the presence of two upper crust body (velocity 6.5 km/s) at 3- to 13-km depth between Iberian Betic and Moroccan Rif in the western and in the middle of Alboran Sea also shows the low velocity favoring the presence of melt in the base of these two bodies. The crustal bodies forms tectonic blocks in the Central Rif and in the Central Betic Cordillera. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Authors & Co-Authors
Timoulali, Youssef
Morocco, Rabat
Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Hahou, Youssef
Morocco, Rabat
Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Jabour, Nacer
Morocco, Rabat
Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Merrouch, Redouane
Morocco, Rabat
Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
El Kharrim, Abderrahman
Morocco, Rabat
Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Statistics
Citations: 7
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s10950-013-9385-0
ISSN:
13834649
Study Locations
Morocco