BEN MOUSSA , Abdelkhalak

In a comment on our manuscript recently published in this journal (Ivčević et al., 2020) [1], Salhi (2020) raises concerns about the manuscript and the study on which it was based, concluding that 'the article provides a distorted picture of the reality in the study area'. The points raised by the comment are mainly dealing with the literature...

The brittle deformation of internal zones of the Rif chain, corresponding to the southern margin of the West Alboran Basin, is not or poorly dated because of the lack of stratigraphic constraints. We provide for the first time a direct dating of brittle deformation of internal zones of the Rif chain, in the Ceuta peninsula located in the...

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New field and micropalaeontological investigations have been conducted in four of the Pliocene rias of the internal zone of the Rif in Morocco, on the southern margin of the Alboran Sea. We found that marine sediments outcropping in these rias were deposited mainly during the Early Zanclean, between 5.04 and 3.8 Ma. After a transgressive...