The Silurian of the Oulad Abbou region (western Moroccan Meseta): a peritidal sedimentation under tectonic control

In the Oulad Abbou syncline, western coastal Meseta, the Silurian deposits exhibit siliciclastic or mixed siliciclastic/carbonate tidal facies that recorded alkaline basalt flows and syn-sedimentary deformations. These facies are staked into peritidal shallowing upward sequences reflecting the evolu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Comptes rendus. Geoscience 2004-01, Vol.336 (9), p.767-774
Hauptverfasser: Attou, A, Hamoumi, N
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Zusammenfassung:In the Oulad Abbou syncline, western coastal Meseta, the Silurian deposits exhibit siliciclastic or mixed siliciclastic/carbonate tidal facies that recorded alkaline basalt flows and syn-sedimentary deformations. These facies are staked into peritidal shallowing upward sequences reflecting the evolution from an infratidal to a supratidal environment. These sequences recorded low-amplitude and high-frequency sea-level variations. The build-up of these rhythmic sequences is related to distensive tectonic that allowed the development of isolated platform from extensive siliciclastic influx. This tectonic event is well recorded in the palaeogeographic evolution of the northern Gondwana platform during the Lower Palaeozoic time.Original Abstract: Dans le synclinal d'Oulad Abbou (Ouest du Mole cotier), les depots du Silurien se caracterisent par des facies de marees qui peuvent etre affectes par une deformation synsedimentaire et dans lesquels s'intercalent des coulees de basalte alcalin. Ces facies s'organisent en sequences peritidales regressives qui traduisent le passage d'un milieu infratidal a un milieu supratidal. Ces sequences enregistrent des variations eustatiques de faible amplitude et de haute frequence ; leur mise en place serait liee a une tectonique distensive qui a permis l'isolement du milieu de depot des apports terrigenes. Cette tectonique s'inscrit dans la geodynamique globale de la plate-forme nord-gondwanienne au cours du Paleozoique inferieur.
ISSN:1631-0713
DOI:10.1016/j.crte.2004.01.007