Biography

Prof. Nasrrddine Youbi

Cadi Ayyad University Faculty of Sciences-Semalia, Morocco

Professor


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

1998 Ph.D., Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

1990 M.Sc., Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco


Publications (Only some papers are listed)

Journals

  1. Ben-Daoud, M., Ibouh, H., Youbi, N., El Mostafa, M., Boumehdi, M.A., Fadil, M., Diallo, M., Azmi, M., Evans, D., & Gong, Z. (2026). ASTER and SPOT 5 satellite data for mapping dyke swarms and hydrothermal alteration minerals in the Tagragra d’Akka inlier (western Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Implications for gold exploration. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 238, 106082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2026.106082
  2. Ben-Daoud, M., Ibouh, H., Youbi, N., Boumehdi, M.A., Ba, M.H., Guillou, O., Diallo, M., Fadil, M., & Azmi, M. (2026). Geometry and distribution of Proterozoic mafic dyke swarms in the Reguibat Shield (West African Craton, Moroccan Sahara): A remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS) approach. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 237, 106062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2026.106062
  3. Fadil, M., Ibouh, H., Youbi, N., El Mostafa, M., Ait Jana, L., Ounar, J., Admou, H., Chellai, E.H., Elhachimi, H., Conticelli, S., Natali, C., Maacha, L., Bouskri, I., El Ghorfi, M., Boumehdi, M.A., Azmi, M., Ben-Daoud, M., & Diallo, M. (2026). Hydrothermal alteration and structural lineaments of the Cambrian Jbel Boho volcanic system (Bou Azzer inlier, Morocco) revealed by remote sensing: Implications for an atypical porphyry-style Cu system. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 242, 106252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2026.106252
  4. OUKHRO, R., YOUBI, N., KALDERON-ASAEL, B., EVANS, D. A. D., PIERCE, J., WOTZLAW, J.-F., OVTCHAROVA, M., MATA, J., MEDIANY, M. A., OUNAR, J., MOUME, W. E., HADIMI, I., MOUTBIR, O., BOUMEHDI, M. A., OUADJOU, A., & BEKKER, A. (2025). Volcanic Stratigraphy, Petrology, Geochemistry and Precise U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of the Late Ediacaran Ouarzazate Group at the Oued Dar’a Caldera: Intracontinental Felsic Super-Eruptions in Association with Continental Flood Basalt Magmatism on the West African Craton (Saghro Massif, Anti-Atlas). Minerals, 15(8), 776. https://doi.org/10.3390/min15080776
  5. MEDIANY, M. A., YOUBI, N., BEN CHRA, M., MOUTBIR, O., HADIMI, I., MATA, J., WOTZLAW, J.-F., MADEIRA, J., DOBLAS, M., KHALAF, E. E. D. A. H., OUKHRO, R., EL MOUME, W., OUNAR, J., LAHNA, A. A., BOUMEHDI, M. A., & BEKKER, A. (2025). Volcanic Response to Post-Pan-African Orogeny Delamination: Insights from Volcanology, Precise U-Pb Geochronology, Geochemistry, and Petrology of the Ediacaran Ouarzazate Group of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Minerals, 15(2), 142. https://doi.org/10.3390/min15020142
  6. CAPRIOLO, M., CALLEGARO, S., DEEGAN, F., M., MERLE, R., JEON, H., WHITEHOUSE, M.J., ARADI, L.A., STORM, M., RENNE, P.R., BAKER, D.R., DAL CORSO, J., NEWTON, R.J., SZABÓ, C., CARVALHO, B.B., YOUBI, N., & MARZOLI, A. (2024). Dynamic Evolution of the Transcrustal Plumbing System in Large Igneous Provinces: Geochemical and Microstructural Insights from Glomerocrysts and Melt Inclusions. Journal of Petrology, Volume 65, Issue 10, October 2024, egae103, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae103
  7. MARZOLI, A., MADEIRA, J., MATA, J., DE MIN, A., BRUM SILVEIRA, A., YOUBI, N., SILVA, P., BERTRAND, H., CHIARADIA, M., JOURDAN, F., MEYZEN, C.M., & CALLEGARO, S. (2024). Time-Dependent Evolution and Source Heterogeneities of Ocean Island Basalts from a Weak Plume, São Jorge, Azores. Journal of Petrology, egae122, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae122
  8. MOUMOU, A., YOUBI, N., EL HACHIMI, H., EL KADIRI, K., MADEIRA, J., MATA, J., AMRI, I., & AIT BAHA, A. (2024). Morphology, Internal Architecture, Facies Model, and Emplacement Mechanisms of Lava Flows from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) of the Hartford and Deerfield Basins (USA). Geosciences, 14(8), 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14080204
  9. MOUTBIR, O., AARAB, E.M., YOUBI, N., AIT LAHNA, A., GAETA TASSINARI, C.C., MATA, J., MITCHELL, R.N., GÄRTNER, A., SOESOO, A., BENSALAH, M.K., SOULAIMANI, A., BOUMEHDI, M.A. & LINNEMANN, U. (2024). Evidence of a large igneous province at ca. 347–330 Ma along the northern Gondwana margin linked to the assembly of Pangea: Insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of the South-Western Branch of the Variscan Belt (Morocco). Earth-Science Reviews. Volume 258, November 2024, 104905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104905
  10. VENIER, M., ZIBERNA, L. MANCINI, L. KAO, A.P. BERNARDINI, F. RONCORONI, G. MILANI, S. YOUBI, N. MAJIGSUREN, Y. DE MIN, A. & LENAZ, D. (2024). Multi-scale and multi-modal imaging study of mantle xenoliths and petrological implications. American Mineralogist (2024) 109 (5): 882–895. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8866
  11. EL KABOURI, J., ERRAMI, E., BECKER-KERBER, B., ENNIH, N., & YOUBI, N. (2023). Microbially induced sedimentary structures from the Ediacaran of Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Precambrian Research. Volume 395, 1 September 2023, 107135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107135
  12. LANARI, R., FACCENNA, C., NATALI, C., ŞENGÜL ULUOCAK, E., FELLIN, M. G., BECKER, T. W., YOUBI, N. CLEMENTUCCI, R., & CONTICELLI, S. (2023). The Atlas of Morocco: A plume-assisted orogeny. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010843. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010843
  13. MALAININE, C.E., OUABID, M., PARAT, F., OTMANE, R., BODINIER, J.L., YOUBI, N., BOUMEHDI, M.A., JEAN-MARIE DAUTRIA, J.M, GARRIDO, C. J. & EL MESSBAHI, H. (2023). The Twihinate–Lamlaga Carbonatite Complex: A Potential Source of REE, Nb, and Phosphates at the NW Margin of the West African Craton (Dakhla Province, Morocco). In: Lucci, F., et al. Selected Studies in Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry. CAJG 2020. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43744-1_2
  14. CHI FRU, E., BANKOLE, O., CHRAIKI, I., YOUBI, N., MILLET, M.A.M, ROUXEL, O., EL ALBANI, A., BOUOUGRI, E. H. (2022). Corrigendum to ‘Early Neoproterozoic oxygenation dynamics along the northern margin of the West African Craton, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco’ [Chemical Geology 581 (2021) 120404]. Chemical Geology, Volume 590, 20 February 2022, 120703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120703
  15. ABDEINA, E.H., BAZIN, S., CHAZOT, G., BERTRAND, H., LE GALL, B., YOUBI, N., SABAR, M.S., MOHAMED KHALIL BENSALAH, M.KH & BOUMEHDI M.A. (2021). Geophysical modelling of the deep structure of the Richat magmatic intrusion (northern Mauritania): insights into its kinematics of emplacement. Arab J Geosci 14, 2315 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-08734-4
  16. CHAIB, L.; AIT LAHNA, A.; ADMOU, H.; YOUBI, N.; EL MOUME, W.; TASSINARI, C.C.G.; MATA, J.; BASEI, M.A.S.; SATO, K.; MARZOLI, A.; BODINIER, J.-L.; GÄRTNER, A.; BOUMEHDI, M.A.; BENSALAH, M.K.; SOULAIMANI, A.; HEFFERAN, K.; MAACHA, L.; BAJDDI, A. Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Neoproterozoic Backarc Basin Khzama Ophiolite (Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco): Tectonomagmatic Implications. Minerals 2021, 11, 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11010056
  17. CHI FRU, E., BANKOLE, O., CHRAIKI, I., YOUBI, N., MILLET, M.A.M, ROUXEL, O., EL ALBANI, A., BOUOUGRI, E. H. (2021). Early Neoproterozoic oxygenation dynamics along the northern margin of the West African Craton, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Chemical Geology, Volume 581, 120404. https://doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120404
  18. CHRAIKI, I. BOUOUGRI, E.H, CHI FRU, E., LAZREQ N., YOUBI, N., BOUMEHDI, M.A., AUBINEAU, J., FONTAINE, C., ABDERRAZAK EL ALBANI, A. (2021) A 571 million-year-old alkaline volcanic lake photosynthesizingmicrobial community, the Anti-atlas, Morocco. Geobiology. First published: 24 December 2020. Volume19, Issue 2 March 2021 Pages 105-124 https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12425
  19. DAVIES, J.H.F.L., MARZOLI, A., BERTRAND, H., YOUBI, N., ERNESTO, M., GREBER, N.D., ACKERSON, M., SIMPSON, G., BOUVIER, A-S., BAUMGARTNER, L., PETTKE, T., FARINA, F., AHRENSTEDT, H.V., SCHALTEGGER U. (2021). Zircon petrochronology in large igneous provinces reveals upper crustal contamination processes: new U–Pb ages, Hf and O isotopes, and trace elements from the Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 176, 9 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-01765-2
  20. DOMEIER, M., FONT, E., YOUBI, N., DAVIES, J., NEMKIN, S., VAN DER VOO, R., PERROT, M., BENABBOU, M., BOUMEHDI, M.A., TORSVIK, T.H. (2021). On the Early Permian shape of Pangea from paleomagnetism at its core. Gondwana Research Volume 90, February 2021, Pages 171-198 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.11.005
  21. *GONG, Z., EVANS, D.A.D ., YOUBI, N., SÖDERLUND, U., *AIT LAHNA, A., AIT MALEK, M., WEN, B., JING, X., DING, J., BOUMEHDI, M.A., ERNST, R.E. Reorienting West African Craton in Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Supercontinent Nuna. Geology (2021) 49 (10): 1171–1176. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48855.1
  22. HADIMI I, YOUBI N, AIT LAHNA A, BENSALAH MK, MOUTBIR O, MATA J, DOBLAS M, TASSINARI CCG, GAGGERO L, BASEI MAS, SATO K, EL MOUME W, BOUMEHDI MA. U–Pb Zircon Geochronological and Petrologic Constraints on the Post-Collisional Variscan Volcanism of the Tiddas-Souk Es-Sebt des Aït Ikko Basin (Western Meseta, Morocco). Minerals. 2021; 11(10):1099. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11101099
  23. IKENNE, M., BEKKER, A., ERNST, R.E., YOUBI, N., *AIT LAHNA, A., SÖDERLUND, U., TASSINARI CCG, OUSBIH, M., BOUMEHDI, M.A., AND BENSALAH, M. KH. (2021). Discussion on ‘From Pan-African transpression to Cadomian transtension at the West African margin: new U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)’ by Errami et al. 2020 (SP503, 209–233). Journal of the Geological Society (2021),178(4):jgs2020-206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-206
  24. LINDSTRÖM, S., CALLEGARO, S., DAVIES, J., TEGNER, C., VAN DE SCHOOTBRUGGE, B. GUNVER K.PEDERSEN, G.K., YOUBI, N., SANEI, H., & MARZOLI A. (2021). Tracing volcanic emissions from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province in the sedimentary record Earth-Science Reviews Volume 212, January 2021, 103444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103444
  25. *MALAININE, C.E., RAJI, O., OUABID, M., KHOUAKHI, A., BODINIER, J.L., LAAMRANI, A., EL MESSBAHI, H., YOUBI, N. & BOUMEHDI, M.A. (2021) An integrated ASTER-based approach for mapping carbonatite and iron oxide-apatite deposits, Geocarto International, https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.1953617
  26. SOUKRATI, A., YOUBI, N., GRÉGOIRE, M., BERGER, B., BOUMEHDI, M.A., IBHI, A., RKHA, KH. C. (2021). Pyroxenite xenoliths and clinopyroxene megacrysts from the Cenozoic Jbel Saghro Volcanic Field (Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Petrography, mineral chemistry and equilibration conditions. Geochemistry (formerly Chemie der Erde / Geochemistry). Volume 81, Issue 1, April 2021, 125694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2020.125694


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