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Medaouri M, Déverchère J, Graindorge D, Bracene R, Badji R, Ouabadi A, Yelles-Chaouche K,
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O and possible pre-eruptional Rb-Sr isochrons in cordierite-bearing
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Neres M, Carafa MMC, Fernandes RMS, Matias L, Duarte JC, Barba S, Terrinha P (2016)
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inversion distributed in time and space in the Alboran sea, western Mediterranean. Tectonics
36:2777–2805
Martínez-Martínez JM, Azañón JM (1997) Mode of extensional tectonics in the southeastern betics
(SE Spain): implications for the tectonic evolution of the peri-Alboran orogenic system.
Tectonics 16:205–225
Mauffret A, Ammar A, Gorini C, Jabour N (2007) The Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean)
revisited with a view from the Moroccan margin. Terra Nova 19:195–203
Mazzoli S, Helman M (1994) Neogene patterns of relative plate motion for Africa-Europe: some
implications for recent central Mediterranean tectonics. Geol Rundsch 83(2):464–468
Medaouri M, Bracene R, Deverchere J, Graindorge D, Ouabadi A, Yelles-Chaouche AK (2012)
Structural styles and neogene petroleum system around the yusuf-habibas ridge (alboran basin,
mediterranean sea). Leading Edge 31(7):776–785
Medaouri M, Déverchère J, Graindorge D, Bracene R, Badji R, Ouabadi A, Yelles-Chaouche K,
Bendiab F (2014) The transition from Alboran to Algerian basins (Western Mediterranean Sea):
chronostratigraphy, deep crustal structure and tectonic evolution at the rear of a narrow slab
rollback system. J Geodyn 77:186–205
Medialdea T, Vegas R, Somoza L, Vázquez JT, Maldonado A, Dı az-del-Rı o V, Maestro A,
Córdoba D, Fernández-Puga MC (2004) Structure and evolution of the “Olistostrome” complex
of the Gibraltar Arc in the Gulf of Cádiz (Eastern Central Atlantic): evidence from two long
seismic cross-sections. Mar Geol 209:173–198
Meijninger BML, Vissers RLM (2006) Miocene extensional basin development in the Betic
Cordillera, SE Spain revealed through analysis of the Alhama de Murcia and Crevillente Faults.
Basin Res 18:547–571
Merkouriev S, DeMets C (2008) A high-resolution model for Eurasia–North America plate
kinematics since 20 Ma. Geophys J Int 173:1064–1083
Micallef A, Camerlenghi A, Garcia-Castellanos D, Cunarro Otero D, Gutscher MA, Barreca G,
Spatola D, Facchin L, Geletti R, Krastel S, Gross F, Urlaub M (2018) Evidence of the Zanclean
megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Sci Rep 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598018-19446-3
Michard A, Mokhtari A, Lach P, Rossi P, Chalouan A, Saddiqi O, Rjimati EC (2018) Liassic age of
an oceanic gabbro of the External Rif (Morocco): implications for the Jurassic continent–ocean
boundary of Northwest Africa. CR Geoscience 350(6):299–309
Molina-Aguilera A, Mancilla FL, Morales J, Stich D, Yuan X, Heit B (2019) Connection between
the Jurassic oceanic lithosphere of the Gulf of Cádiz and the Alboran slab imaged by Sp receiver
functions. Geology 47:227–230
Monié P, Chopin C (1991) 40Ar–39Ar ages through high-pressure low-temperature metamorphism
in the Western Alps. Eur J Mineral 2:343–361
Monié P, Torres-Roldán RL, García-Casco A (1994) Cooling and exhumation of the Western Betic
Cordilleras, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronological constraints on a collapsed terrane. Tectonophysics
238:353–379
Munksgaard NC (1984) High
18
O and possible pre-eruptional Rb-Sr isochrons in cordierite-bearing
Neogene volcanics from SE Spain. Contrib Mineral Petr 87(4):351–358
Neres M, Carafa MMC, Fernandes RMS, Matias L, Duarte JC, Barba S, Terrinha P (2016)
Lithospheric deformation in the Africa-Iberia plate boundary: improved neotectonic modeling
testing a basal driven Alboran plate. J Geophys Res Solid Earth 121:6566–6596
Olivet JL (1996) Kinematics of the Iberian Plate. Bull Cent Rech Expl-Prod Elf Aquitaine 20
(1):131–195
Osete ML, Gómez JJ, Pavón-Carrasco FJ, Villalaín JJ, Palencia-Ortas A, Ruiz-Martínez VC, Heller
F (2011) The evolution of Iberia during the Jurassic from palaeomagnetic data. Tectonophysics
502:105–120
5 A Geological History for the Alboran Sea Region
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