I - Executive summary
by Alastair Robertson and Neil Kenyon, edited by Jean Mascle and Frédéric Briand
1. Introduction
2. Outline of geodynamic evolution
3. Research needed on structural framework and geodynamic evolution
4. Sedimentary processes on the north African margin

II - Workshop communications

1 - Activated Maghreb margins (Western Mediterranean)
- Evolution of the Mediterranean continental margin of northern Morocco.
Ahmed Chalouan and André Michard

- Mécanismes sédimentaires et structuration récente de la marge méditerranéenne marocaine (partie occidentale).
El Moumni, H. Semlali, A. Ammar, A. El Hmaidi et B. Gensous

- Synthèse des connaissances géologiques et géodynamiques de la Méditerranée occidentale et de la marge algérienne en particulier
Djamal Braik

- Evolution structurale de la partie orientale du bassin d´Alboran au cours du Néogène (offshore occidental, Algérie).
L.H. Kheidri, M.S. Benabdelmoumen, et R.S. Zazoun

- Paleozoic to Cenozoic crustal and basin structuring of the Tunisian north African margin.
Mourad Bedir, Mohamed Soussi and Chedly Abbes

- Le canal de Sardaigne, à la croisée des bassins algéro-provençal et tyrrhénien de la Méditerranée et des segments kabylo-tunisien et siculo-calabrais de la chaine des Maghrébides.
Jean-Pierre Bouillin

- Cenozoic collisional and extensional structures among Sardinia, Sicily and Tunisia (Central Mediterranean): examples and constraints from seismic reflection profiles.
L. Torelli, G. Carrara, R. Sartori and N. Zitellini

- Overview on the stratigraphy, paleogeography and structural evolution in southern Tunisia, during the Mesozoic, as part of the African margin.
Mohamed Dridi

2 - North African/Levant passive margins (Eastern Mediterranean)
- Crustal structure of the Libyan margin.
Marco Brönner and Jannis Makris

- Evidences for tectonic reactivation along the African continental margins from Egypt to Libya.
Jean Mascle, Caroline Huguen and Lies Loncke

- Recent depositional pattern of the Nile deep-sea fan from echo-character mapping: interactions between turbidity currents, mass-wasting processes and tectonics.
Loncke L., Gaullier V., Bellaiche G., Mascle J.

- Evolution of sedimentation patterns on the north African margins: an update from studies of recent mud volcanic deposits.
G.G. Akhmanov, M.K. Ivanov, J.M. Woodside, M.B. Cita, N.H. Kenyon

- Tectonic setting of the Levant margin.
Zvi Ben-Avraham

3 - General
- Tectonic setting of the north African/Arabian continental margin in relation to the bordering Tethys ocean.
Alastair Robertson

- Channelised deep sea depositional systems in the Mediterranean: the value of sonar backscatter mapping.
Neil H. Kenyon

III - Bibliographic references

IV - List of participants