Research in Structural Geology & Tectonics

Anti-Atlas Suture Zone, southern Morocco

Late Precambrian (Pan-African) ophiolites, blue schists, mélanges, magmatic arc, and back-arc basins.

Bou Azzer Inlier- Window into a Precambrian Suture Zone

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Publications

Admou, H., K.P. Hefferan, J.A. Karson and A. Saquaque, Siroua Inlier: Westward extension of the Pan African Bou Azzer ophiolite, Anti-Atlas suture zone, Morocco, for J. Afr. Earth Sci., in preparation, 2001.

Rabia, H., Hefferan, K., Karson, J. and Saquaque, A. Precambrian blueschists in the Anti-Atlas suture zone, Morocco, for Precambian Research, in preparation, 2001.

Saquaque, A., Admou, H., Karson, J.A., Reuber, I. and Hefferan, K., 1989. Precambrian Accretionary Tectonics in the Bou Azzer-El Graara Region, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, Geology, v. 17, p. 1107-1110.

Hefferan, K.P., H. Admou, J.A. Karson and A. Saquaque, Anti-Atlas (Morocco) role in Neoproterozoic Western Gondwana reconstruction, Precambrian Res., 103, 89-96, 2000.

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A., Saquaque, A. and Reuber, I., 1991. Reply to Comment on Precambrian Accretionary Tectonics in the Bou Azzer-El Graara Region, Anti-Atlas, Morocco by W.R. Church, Geology, v. 19, p. 286-287.

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A. and Saquaque, A., 1992. Proterozoic Collisional Basins in a Pan-African Suture Zone, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Precambrian Research, v. 54, p. 295-319.

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A., and Saquaque, A., 1998, The Neoproterozoic Anti-Atlas Suture Zone (Morocco): The Missing Link in the West Gondwanaland Reconstruction, Geology, in review.

Karson, J.A., Saquaque, A., Hilal, R. and Hefferan, K.P, 1998, Blueschist-Bearing Mélange in the Anti-Atlas Belt, Morocco: Implications for Pan-African Subduction, Tectonophysics, in press.

Selected Abstracts

Saquaque, A., Karson, J.A., Bloomer, S., Admou, H., Naidoo, D., Hefferan, K. and Reuber, I., 1988. Precambrian Ophiolites and Accretionary Tectonics, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 69, p. 1453

Admou, H., Saquaque, A., Cisse, A., Benyousef, H., Bloomer, S.H., Reuber, I. and Karson, J.A., 1989. Mise en place d'intrusions syn-cinematiques en regime dicrochevanchaut senestre dans la Boutonniere de Bou Azzer - El Graara (Anti-Atlas Moroccain), Franco- Moroccan Geological Congress (Strasbourg).

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A. and Saquaque, A., 1990. Development of Collisional Basins in a Proterozoic Convergent Margin, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (Dallas), Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. A230.

Saquaque, A., Reuber, I., Karson, J.A., Mrini, Z., Admou, H., Ezzouhairi, H., Ighid, L., Cisse, A. and Benyoucef, A., 1990. The Panafrican Suture Zone and Magmatic Arc System of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas, Workshop on Atlas Mountains, Berlin, 23-25 May.

Bougadir, B., Saidi, A., Samir, M., Karson, J.A., Rahimi, A., Reuber, I., and Saquaque, A., 1991. Emplacement of Alcaline Intrusions in the Central High Atlas (Morocco) Traced by Their Fluidality, European Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting.

Graber, W.J., Karson, J.A. and Saquaque, A., 1991. Late Proterozoic Intra-Arc Tectonics in the Kelaa des Mgouna Inlier, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (San Diego), Abstracts with Programs, v.23, p. A134.

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A., Hurst, S.D., Saquaque, A. and Bloomer, S.H., 1991. The Bou Azzer Inlier, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco: A Proterozoic Accretionary Terrane, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (San Diego), Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A474.

Hilal, R., Saquaque, A., Reuber, I. and Karson, J.A., 1991. Intrusive Ultramafics in the Bou Azzer Ophiolite Complex, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, European Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting.

Tekiout, B., Saquaque, A., Reuber, I. and Karson, J.A., 1991. Synvolcanic Tectonics and Related Sedimentation in the Fore-Arc/Arc Environment of Bou Azzer (Anti-Atlas, Morocco), European Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting.

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A., Bloomer, S.H. and Saquaque, A., 1992. Oblique Collision in a Proterozoic Suture Zone, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Field and Remote Sensing Analysis, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (Cincinnati), Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. A280.

Hefferan, K.P., Karson, J.A., and Saquaque, A., 1998. The Neoproterozoic Anti-Atlas Suture Zone (Morocco): Missing Link in Western Gondwanaland Reconstruction, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (Toronto), Abstracts with Programs, in press.