Klingelhoefer F. auteur aut IRD Deverchere J. auteur aut IRD Graindorge D. auteur aut IRD Aidi C. auteur aut IRD Badji R. auteur aut IRD Bouyahiaoui B. auteur aut IRD Lepretre A. auteur aut IRD Mihoubi A. auteur aut IRD Beslier M. O. auteur aut IRD Charvis Philippe auteur aut IRD Schnurle P. auteur aut IRD Sage F. auteur aut IRD Medaouri M. auteur aut IRD Arab M. auteur aut IRD Bracene R. auteur aut IRD Yelles-Chaouche A. auteur aut IRD Badsi M. auteur aut IRD Galve A. auteur aut IRD Geli L. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access The Algerian continental margin in the western Mediterranean formed as a back-arc basin and is today reactivated by the convergence between the African and Eurasian plates. It is one of the very rare examples of passive margins undergoing inversion expressed in a moderate seismicity of the margin and is possibly giving way for future subduction. With the objective to better know the deep structure of the margin and its associated basin, the origin of its seismicity and to study the mechanism of reactivation, five existing wide-angle seismic profiles along the margin are revisited. They were located offshore Mostaganem, Tipasa, Greater Kabylia, Jijel and Annaba. These profiles show that the basin is underlain by a 5 km thick crust of oceanic magmatic origin, possibly created at non-continuous small accretionary ridge segments. The continent-ocean transition zone is narrow, except at the easternmost profile, possibly due to an opening including a shear movement. No high velocity zone in the lower crust corresponding to mantle rocks has been imaged at the Algerian margin. The continental crust is thinned in a narrow and strongly segmented manner. It is widest (70 km) in the central segment offshore Greater Kabylia where there is a wider zone of distal thinned continental crust than on the other margin segments. The thickest crust detected during this survey corresponds to the African continental crust and the Kabylides blocks and is about 22-25 km thick. This reduced thickness in comparison with unthinned continental crust might be due to the influence of earlier subduction at the margin, in form of erosion by the subducting slab. specialized Algerian continental margin Wide-angle seismic Crustal nature Mediterranean basin Reflection seismic Tectonics ALGERIE MEDITERRANEE 066 064 186 104433 [14 p.] 2022 1464-343X https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083983 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104433 1464-343X [F B010083983] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083983 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2022-02/010083983.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2022-02-04 2025-02-24 fdi:010083983 fre