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André Michard
Affiliation : Université Paris-Sud · École Normale Supérieure - PSL
- 48Publications (affiliation in France)
- 186Total publications
- 8235Citations
- 51h-index
Research profile
André Michard has 48 indexed publications (1982–2024). Their work appears mainly in “Lecture notes in earth sciences”, “Journal of African Earth Sciences” and “Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France”. Their most cited article, “How does the Alpine belt end between Spain and Morocco ?” (2002), has been cited 266 times. 7 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in Morocco.
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- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
- Geological formations and processes
Publications (48)
- Tracking the Southern Tethys Margin in NW Africa (Rif Belt, Morocco)
- The Variscan belts of North-West Africa: An African legacy to the Wilson Cycle concept
- The Westernmost Tethyan Margins in the Rif Belt (Morocco), A Review
- Late extension of a passive margin coeval with subduction of the adjacent slab: The Western Alps and Maghrebides files
- Extension of a lower plate passive margin coeval with subduction of the adjacent slab: The Western Alps and Maghrebides cases
- New Structural and RSCM Thermometric Data from the Variscan Orogen of Morocco: Insight into the Extension-To-Compression Transition
- Early Exhumation of the Beni Bousera Peridotite-Granulite Unit (Internal Rif, Morocco) Inferred from Its Metasedimentary Cap; A New View on Some Marbles and Regional Implications
- The Beni Bousera marbles, record of a Triassic-Early Jurassic hyperextended margin in the Alpujarrides-Sebtides units (Rif belt, Morocco)
- Early exhumation of the Beni Bousera granulites and peridotites at the northern margin of the westernmost Tethys (Rif belt, Morocco); new constraints from overlying marbles
- Comment on “The Mesozoic Margin of the Maghrebian Tethys in the Rif Belt (Morocco): Evidence for Polyphase Rifting and Related Magmatic Activity” by Gimeno‐Vives et al.
- Initial Pangean rifting north of the West African Craton: Insights from late Permian U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of alkaline magmatism from the Eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)
- Quartzite crests in Paleoproterozoic granites (Anti-Atlas, Morocco); a hint to Pan-African deformation of the West African Craton margin
- The Anti-Atlas Pan-African Belt (Morocco): Overview and pending questions
- Thick-skinned tectonics in a Late Cretaceous-Neogene intracontinental belt (High Atlas Mountains, Morocco): The flat-ramp fault control on basement shortening and cover folding
- The “Eovariscan Synmetamorphic Phase” of the Moroccan Meseta Domain Revisited; A Hint for Late Devonian Extensional Geodynamics Prior to the Variscan Orogenic Evolution
- The West African Craton and its margins. Foreword
- Saghro Group in the Ougnat Massif (Morocco), an evidence for a continuous Cadomian basin along the northern West African Craton
- Middle to late Cambrian shallow marine trace fossils from the Imfout Syncline (Western Meseta, Morocco): Palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental significance in NW-Gondwana
- Fold interference pattern in thick-skinned tectonics; a case study from the external Variscan belt of Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco
- The Atlas-Meseta Red Beds basin (Morocco) and the Lower Ordovician rifting of NW-Gondwana
- Retracted : Oceanic Crustal Rocks in the External Rif (Morocco) with High K‐Boninitic Affinities: Subduction Initiation Record for the Ligurian – Maghrebian Ocean Basin?
- First evidence for Cambrian rift-related magmatism in the West African Craton margin: The Derraman Peralkaline Felsic Complex
- Comment on “Evidence of extensional metamorphism associated to Cretaceous rifting of the North-Maghrebian passive margin: The Tanger-Ketama Unit (external Rif, northern Morocco)” by Vázquez et al., Geologica Acta 11 (2013), 277-293
- Late Ediacaran–Cambrian structures and their reactivation during the Variscan and Alpine cycles in the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)
- The Pan-African Belt
- The Atlas System
- The Rif Belt
- The Variscan Belt
- Devonian extension of the Pan-African crust north of the West African craton, and its bearing on the Variscan foreland deformation: evidence from eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)
- An Outline of the Geology of Morocco
- The Cretaceous-Tertiary Plateaus
- Conclusion: Continental Evolution in Western Maghreb
- Variscan deformation at the northern border of the West African Craton, eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco: compression of a mosaic of tilted blocks
- Pressure–temperature–time constraints on the Maghrebide mountain building: evidence from the Rif–Betic transect (Morocco, Spain), Algerian correlations, and geodynamic implications
- Fission-track thermochronology of the Oman Mountains continental windows, and current problems of tectonic interpretation
- Quelques développements récents sur la géodynamique du Maghreb
- Comment on “The ultimate arc: Differential displacements, oroclinal bending, and vertical axis rotation in the External Betic‐Rif arc” by J. P. Platt et al.
- The Alpine Rif Belt (Morocco): A Case of Mountain Building in a Subduction-Subduction-Transform Fault Triple Junction
- The Alpine Rif Belt (Morocco): A Case of Mountain Building in a Subduction-Subduction-Transform Fault Triple Junction
- How does the Alpine belt end between Spain and Morocco ?
- Apatite fission track analysis in the Argentera massif: evidence of contrasting denudation rates in the External Crystalline Massifs of the Western Alps
- High-pressure granulites on top of the Beni Bousera peridotites, Rif Belt, Morocco; a record of an ancient thickened crust in the Alboran Domain
- Late thermal evolution of the Oman Mountains subophiolitic windows: Apatite fission-track thermochronology
- Late Hercynian–Mesozoic thinning in the Alboran domain: metamorphic data from the northern Rif, Morocco
- New constraints on the bending of the Gibraltar Arc from palaeomagnetism of the Ronda peridotites (Betic Cordilleras, Spain)
- Late Cretaceous exhumation of the Oman blueschists and eclogites: a two‐stage extensional mechanism
- A serpentinite ridge in a collisional paleomargin setting: the Beni Malek massif, External Rif, Morocco
- Foreland thrusts and olistromes on the pre-Sahara margin of the Variscan orogen, Morocco
Publication venues
- Lecture notes in earth sciences × 7
- Journal of African Earth Sciences × 6
- Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France × 6
- Comptes Rendus Géoscience × 5
- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation/Advances in science, technology & innovation × 4
- Terra Nova × 3
Publications per year
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Collaborations
Partner institutions : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Laboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure · Université de Cergy-Pontoise · Géoazur · Université Côte d'Azur
Co-authors’ countries : Morocco
Co-authors
- Dominique Frizon de Lamotte
- Bruno Goffé
- Hugues Feinberg
- Gérard Poupeau
- Michel Corsini
- Hervé Bertrand
- Christian Chopin
- Abdeltif Lahfid
- Raymond Montigny
- Renaud Caby A
- Chrystèle Vérati
- Dominique Gasquet
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