Two-phased collapse of the shallow-water carbonate factory during the late Pliensbachian–Toarcian driven by changing climate and enhanced continental …

FN Krencker, A Fantasia, J Danisch, R Martindale… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The end Pliensbachian–Toarcian is characterized by several carbon-cycle
perturbations and faunal turnovers (eg, ammonites and foraminifera), which are most likely …

Polyphased mesozoic rifting from the Atlas to the north-west Africa paleomargin

FO Escosa, R Leprêtre, V Spina, O Gimeno-Vives… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on the interpretation of geological maps, seismic reflection and well data
complemented with a bibliographic compilation and field work in the Rif, we investigate the …

Contractional salt tectonics and role of pre-existing diapiric structures in the Southern Pyrenean foreland fold–thrust belt (Montsec and Serres Marginals)

L Burrel, A Teixell - Journal of the Geological Society, 2021 - lyellcollection.org
Triassic Keuper evaporites have long been recognized as the main detachment level for
thrusting in the Pyrenean fold–thrust belts. The deformed Late Cretaceous–Eocene foreland …

Paleostress constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Central High Atlas orogen

H Skikra, K Amrouch, A Soulaimani - Journal of Structural Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central High Atlas is distinguished by map-scale, sigmoid, and narrow
magmatic-cored ridges, which separate wide and open synclines. The origin of these …

Subsidence analysis of salt tectonics‐driven carbonate minibasins (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)

P Strauss, P Granado, JA Muñoz - Basin Research, 2021 - earthdoc.org
Subsidence analysis study for several Triassic carbonate platforms from the eastern
Northern Calcareous Alps shows that salt expulsion allowed for the growth of thick isolated …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of strong sediment-supply variability on the sequence stratigraphic architecture: Insights from early Toarcian carbonate factory collapses

FN Krencker, A Fantasia, M El Ouali, L Kabiri… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Standard sequence stratigraphy interpretations are commonly built upon the premise of
fairly constant sediment supply, leaving vast uncertainties about sequence architecture and …

Stratigraphic and geodynamic characterization of Jurassic–Cretaceous “red beds” on the Msemrir–Errachidia E–W transect (central High Atlas, Morocco)

M El Ouali, L Kabiri, B Essafraoui, A Charroud… - Journal of African Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
The red detrital formations of the Central and Eastern High Atlas of Morocco continue to
spark a large scientific debate around their age varying from the middle Jurassic to the …

Stretching and contraction of extensional basins with pre-rift salt: A numerical modeling approach

P Granado, JB Ruh, P Santolaria, P Strauss… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We present a series of 2D thermo-mechanical numerical experiments of thick-skinned
crustal extension including a pre-rift salt horizon and subsequent thin-, thick-skinned, or …

The Southern Atlas Front in Tunisia and its foreland basin: Structural style and regional-scale deformation

A Masrouhi, M Gharbi, O Bellier, MB Youssef - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
Surface and subsurface data together with balanced cross-sections are used to emphasize
the structural style and regional-scale deformation of the Southern Atlas Front in Tunisia and …

Structural and facies architecture of a diapir-related carbonate minibasin (lower and middle Jurassic, High Atlas, Morocco)

A Teixell, A Barnolas, I Rosales, ML Arboleya - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
We report the structural geometry and facies architecture of a small diapir-related carbonate-
dominated basin from the Jurassic rift of the Moroccan High Atlas. The Azag minibasin is a …