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Possible Salt Domes in the Deep Atlantic off North-west Africa

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The presence of diapirs under the lower continental rise and abyssal plain off north-west Africa indicates that the salt basins of the continental margin may have extended seaward during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.

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RONA, P. Possible Salt Domes in the Deep Atlantic off North-west Africa. Nature 224, 141–143 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224141a0

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