@article{fdi:010071885,
  title = {{P}aleogeographic and structural evolution of northwestern {A}frica and its {A}tlantic margins since the early {M}esozoic},
  author = {{Y}e, {J}. and {C}hardon, {D}ominique and {R}ouby, {D}. and {G}uillocheau, {F}. and {D}all'asta, {M}. and {F}erry, {J}. {N}. and {B}roucke, {O}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he geological evolution of northwestern {A}frica and its continental margins is investigated in the light of nine {M}eso-{C}enozoic paleogeological maps, which integrate original minimal extent of sedimentary deposits beyond their present-day erosional limits. {M}apping is based on a compilation of published original data on the stratigraphy and depositional environments of sediments, structures, magmatism, and low-temperature thermochonology, as well as on the interpretation of industrial seismic and borehole data. {W}e show that rifting of the equatorial domain propagated eastward from the {C}entral {A}tlantic between the {V}alanginian (ca. 140 {M}a) and the {A}ptian (ca. 112 {M}a) as an en echelon strike-slip and rift system connected to an inland rift network. {T}his network defines a six-microplate synrift kinematic model for the {A}frican continental domain. {W}e document persistent, long-wavelength eroding marginal upwarps that supplied clastic sediments to the offshore margin basins and a large intracratonic basin. {T}he latter acted as a transient sediment reservoir because the products of its erosion were transferred both to the {T}ethys (to the north) and the {A}tlantic {O}cean. {T}his paired marginal upwarp-intra-cratonic basin source-to-sink system was perturbed by the growth of the late {P}aleogene {H}oggar hotspot swell that fragmented the intracratonic basins into five residual depocenters. {B}y linking the evolution of the continental margins to that of their {A}frican hinterland, this study bears important implications for the interplay of long-wavelength deformation and sediment transfers over paired shield-continental margin systems.},
  keywords = {{AFRIQUE} {DU} {NORD} ; {AFRIQUE} {DE} {L}'{OUEST} ; {ATLANTIQUE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{G}eosphere},
  volume = {13},
  numero = {4},
  pages = {1254--1284},
  ISSN = {1553-040{X}},
  year = {2017},
  DOI = {10.1130/ges01426.1},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010071885},
}