The Atlas of Morocco: A Plume‐Assisted Orogeny

We explore the connections between crustal shortening, volcanism, and mantle dynamics in Atlas of Morocco. In response to compressional forces strain localization, this intraplate orogen has evolved far from convergent plate margins. Convective effects, such as lithospheric weakening plume-related contributed important ways building high topography. seek better understand how processes interacted during Atlas' orogeny by combining multiple strands observations, including new published data. Constraints on thermal evolution are combined with analyses topographic evolution, petrological, geochemical data Anti-Atlas volcanic fields, a simple numerical model interactions among deformation, plume, volcanism. Our findings substantiate that: (a) deformation exhumation accelerated middle/late Miocene, contemporaneous onset volcanism; (b) volcanism an anorogenic signature deep source; (c) dynamic upwelling supports propose that plume related weakened lithosphere beneath favored localization shortening along pre-existing structures convergence. This convective-tectonic sequence may represent general mechanism for modification continental plates throughout thermo-chemical supercontinental cycle.