Dominique Frizon de Lamotte

TL;DR: The Atlas system (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) constitutes an important morphologic barrier fringing the Sahara platform as mentioned in this paper and its structural style changes along strike from a thick-skinned style in Morocco to a thin-skinned one in Algeria and Tunisia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the origin of these striking contrasts in relation with i) the Variscan heritage; ii) crustal vertical movements during the Mesozoic; iii) crust shortening during the Cenozoic and finally, the occurrence of a Miocene-Quaternary hot mantle anomaly in the west.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss different aspects of detachment folding well illustrated in the studied area in particular, focus on: salt mobility, multiple decollements and late basement control.

TL;DR: The existence of synchronous geodynamic events from one end of the system to the other, although they do not have the same meaning, is emphasized in this article, where two of them are particularly important: the Campanian-Santonian (C-S) event corresponds to obduction and exhumation of high pressure-low-temperature metamorphic rocks around the Arabian promontory, inversion along the margins of the East Mediterranean basins, and lithosphere buckling in the Atlas system (Maghreb and adjacent Sahara platform).