The Azores-Tunisia region is formed by the western part of the plate boundary between Eurasia and Africa. This plate boundary presents a complex nature due to its proximity to the pole of rotation of the African plate. This condition produces crustal extensions and normal faulting at the Azores archipelago, transcurrent motion with strike slip faulting at the center part of the Azores-Gibraltar fault and at the eastern end, from the Gulf of Cadiz to Tunisia, plate convergence with reverse faulting. In this last part, the collision of Iberia with northern Morocco produces complex phenomena with intermediate depth and deep earthquakes and an extensional regime at the Alboran sea. Recently, new evidence has been gathered in this region based on observations from geology, geodesy, mainly through GPS measurements, seismology, especially with the installation of broad-band stations, and other fields of geophysics, such as paleomagnetism and gravimetry.
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tectonic extrusion, tectonic correction, thickened continental lithosphere, geodetic solutions, combined velocity field, access this journal online, central transect, crustal detachment, red nodular limestones, geodetic results, rapid exhumation, tectonic reactivation, seismic moment tensor, unblocking temperature, striated pebbles, tectonic inversion, extrusion model, station corrections, focal mechanisms, chaotic body, sedimentary infill, campaign solutions, fault plane solutions, plate boundary zone, active deformation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alboran Sea, Ain Temouchent, Gulf of Cadiz, Gorringe Ridge, Early Miocene, Alhoran Sea, Gibraltar Arc, Iberian Massif, Subbetic Zone, Middle Miocene, Western Europe, Alboran Terrane, Beni Bousera, External Rif, Tagus Abyssal Plain, Gibraltar Strait, Guadalquivir Bank, Sierra Tejeda, Strait of Gibraltar, Belie Cordillera, Horseshoe Fault, Africa-stable Europe, Bette Cordillera, Earth Planet, Horseshoe Scarp New!
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tectonic extrusion, tectonic correction, thickened continental lithosphere, geodetic solutions, combined velocity field, access this journal online, central transect, crustal detachment, red nodular limestones, geodetic results, rapid exhumation, tectonic reactivation, seismic moment tensor, unblocking temperature, striated pebbles, tectonic inversion, extrusion model, station corrections, focal mechanisms, chaotic body, sedimentary infill, campaign solutions, fault plane solutions, plate boundary zone, active deformation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alboran Sea, Ain Temouchent, Gulf of Cadiz, Gorringe Ridge, Early Miocene, Alhoran Sea, Gibraltar Arc, Iberian Massif, Subbetic Zone, Middle Miocene, Western Europe, Alboran Terrane, Beni Bousera, External Rif, Tagus Abyssal Plain, Gibraltar Strait, Guadalquivir Bank, Sierra Tejeda, Strait of Gibraltar, Belie Cordillera, Horseshoe Fault, Africa-stable Europe, Bette Cordillera, Earth Planet, Horseshoe Scarp New!
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- Elementary Seismology (Books in Geology) by Charles F. Richter on page 134
- Working Hypothesis by Chris Mann on page 44
- Marie Curie (Profiles Series) by Angela Bull on page 68
- The Origin of Arcs (Developments in Geotectonics) by F. C. Wezel on page 39
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