Structural and sedimentologic relations between the High and the Middle Atlas 
of Morocco during the Jurassic time

Löwner, R.; Souhel, A.; Chafiki, D.; Canérot, J.; Klitzsch, E.; CeGIT Centre for GeoInformation Technology, Geoengineering Centres, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum

doi:10.1016/S0899-5362(02)00027-1

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Structural and sedimentologic relations between the High and the Middle Atlas of Morocco during the Jurassic time

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Löwner, R.
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Souhel, A.
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Chafiki, D.
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Canérot, J.
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Klitzsch, E.
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Löwner, R., Souhel, A., Chafiki, D., Canérot, J., Klitzsch, E. (2002): Structural and sedimentologic relations between the High and the Middle Atlas of Morocco during the Jurassic time. - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 34, 3, 287-290.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0899-5362(02)00027-1

https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_230672

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The cartographic, sedimentologic and stratigraphic studies carried out on the Mesozoic deposits in the border zone between the Middle and the High Moroccan Atlas (regions of Naour and Aghbala) led us to specify the lithology of formations, the significant differences of thickness and the angular unconformities as well as stratigraphic hiatuses. All of this indicates a tectonic regime of transcurrent faults from the Bajocian-Bathonian period along the major fault zone ''Aghbala-Afourer'' in a N70o direction. A sinistral strike-slip movement along this major fault zone induced the development of folded and fractured zones in a N120o direction, which limited a small trough filled by the red continental formations. The whole system is covered thereafter by lower Cretaceous deposits.