continental domain was located N of Africa from which it detached since the Cretaceous, resulting then in a northward-deriving microplate between Africa and Eurasia (e.g., synthesis by Andeweg, 2002). During the Oligocene, the domain was fragmented by the rifting of the Algero-Provencal basin (western Mediterranean), so that its WSW-migrating part (the Alboran block, Andrieux et al. 1971) become wedged between the
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