Palaeomagnetic investigation of Middle Devonian limestones of Algeria and the Gondwana reconstruction

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Smith, Brigitte, Moussine-Pouchkine, Alexis, Ahmed, Ali Aït Kaci
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1994
• Subjects: Articles; South Pole; Daly; South pole
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/119/1/166; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1994.tb00920.x

We have carried out a palaeomagnetic investigation of the upper middle Devonian marly limestone of the Hazzel Matti Formation outcropping at Meredoua in the northern Ahaggar in the Sahara Desert. The Givetian age of the formation is well constrained by palaeontological arguments. The formation has b...