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Journal Articles Journal of Petrology Year : 2019

The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Morocco

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Christine Meyzen

Abstract

The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) is a large igneous province (LIP) composed of basic dykes, sills, layered intrusions and lava flows emplaced before Pangea break-up and currently distributed on the four continents surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. One of the oldest, best preserved and most complete sub-provinces of the CAMP is located in Morocco. Geochemical, geochronologic, petrographic and magnetostratigraphic data obtained in previous studies allowed identification of four strato-chemical magmatic units, i.e. the Lower, Intermediate, Upper and Recurrent units. For this study, we completed a detailed sampling of the CAMP in Morocco, from the Anti Atlas in the south to the Meseta in the north. We provide a complete mineralogical, petrologic (major and trace elements on whole-rocks and minerals), geochronologic (40 Ar/ 39 Ar and U-Pb ages) and geochemical set of data (including Sr-Nd-Pb-Os isotope systematics) for basaltic and basaltic-andesitic lava flow piles and for their presumed feeder dykes and sills. Combined with field observations, these data suggest a very rapid (<0Á3 Ma) emplacement of over 95% of the preserved magmatic rocks. In particular, new and previously published data for the Lower to Upper unit samples yielded indistinguishable
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hal-02405965 , version 1 (12-12-2019)

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Andrea Marzoli, Hervé Bertrand, Nasrrddine Youbi, Sara Callegaro, Renaud Merle, et al.. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Morocco. Journal of Petrology, 2019, 60 (5), pp.945-996. ⟨10.1093/petrology/egz021⟩. ⟨hal-02405965⟩
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