The principal paleogeographic characteristics of North and Central Africa during the
Paleozoic were the permanency of large exposed lands over central Africa, surrounded by …

Abstract The Red Sea is part of an extensive rift system that includes from south to north the
oceanic Sheba Ridge, the Gulf of Aden, the Afar region, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the …

Thirteen time interval maps were constructed, which depict the Triassic to Neogene plate
tectonic configuration, paleogeography and general lithofacies of the southern margin of …

The Aegean region is a concentrate of the main geodynamic processes that shaped the
Mediterranean region: oceanic and continental subduction, mountain building, high …

The Eastern Mediterranean region exhibits a fascinating diversity of ophiolites and related
oceanic magmatic units of mainly Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous age. Comparisons with …

Along the northern border of Africa, Pangea breakup has been diachronic. During the
Jurassic, the Alpine Tethys propagated northeastward from the Atlantic to the Alps. During …

The basin formed along the northern passive margin of Gondwanaland as a relict of the
Mesozoic Neotethys in early Mesozoic time. Though direct information from the basin itself is …

Neotethyan suprasubduction zone ophiolites represent anomalous oceanic crust developed
in older host basins during trench rollback cycles and later entrapped in orogenic belts as a …

The Cenozoic history of the retreating Hellenic subduction system in the eastern
Mediterranean involves subduction, accretion, arc magmatism, exhumation, normal faulting …

Abstract The northern African Tethyan margin registered three major rifting episodes from
the latest Palaeozoic-earliest Mesozoic to the earliest Cenozoic. Break-up of Gondwana was …