Utilisation de la sismique reflexion pour l’etude tectonique de la marge d’abidjan (Cote D’Ivoire): decrochement et extension
International Journal of Development Research
Utilisation de la sismique reflexion pour l’etude tectonique de la marge d’abidjan (Cote D’Ivoire): decrochement et extension
Received 27th June, 2018; Received in revised form 20th July, 2018; Accepted 02nd August, 2018; Published online 30th September, 2018
Copyright © 2018, KOUAME Loukou Nicolas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Analysis of severalseismic profiles resulting from 2D seismicr eflection allowed to study structural basis of Abidjan margin (Côte d’Ivoire) during lower Cretaceous. The principal structural features, normal faults, tilted blocks, grabens, listricfaults and structures in "flower" and "ponytail", observed mainly in Albia sedimentary series indicate that this region of Ivorianmarg in results from geological historypolyphase in connection with both large scaled extral strike movement and distension. These structures inherited from rifting of divergence thus come from transtension component of initial mega-strike between Africa and America.
