Lithostratigraphy and sedimentology of the latest Cretaceous-early Burdigalian Tamezzakht succession (Northern Rif, Morocco): consequences for its sequence stratigraphic interpretation

Kadiri, Khalil El; Serrano, Francisco; Hlila, Rachid; Liemlahi, H.; Chaloüan, Ahmed; López-Garrido, A. C.; Guerra-Merchán, Antonio; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Carlos; Kerzazi, Karima; Mrihi, Abdelaziz El

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“…According to de Capoa et al (2007) and Zaghloul et al (2007), the MFB was involved in the foredeep basin of the Rif orogenic system with the deposition of the thick (up to 2,150 m, Zaghloul et al, 2007) Beni Ider Flysch, which sedimented on top of an upper Jurassic‐Paleogene Mauretanian succession (El Kadiri et al, 2005). Based on nannofossil biochronology, de Capoa et al (2007) defined the age of the basal part of the Beni Ider Flysch as not older than Chattian or early Miocene, whereas the topmost part of the foredeep deposits is not older than late Burdigalian.…”

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The Rif Chain (Northern Morocco) in the Late Tortonian‐Early Messinian Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean Orogenic Belt: Evidence From the Tanger‐Al Manzla Wedge‐Top Basin

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During the Neogene, the Western Mediterranean subduction-related orogen developed under differing modes and senses of subduction, resulting in the formation of the Apennines, Maghrebides, Rif, and Betics. In this work, we present the Neogene kinematic evolution of the Rif, based on literature data and new results from structural-stratigraphic analyses and biostratigraphic investigations carried out in the External Zone of the Rif. We analyzed three stratigraphic sections: Dar Zhirou, Saf Lahmame, and Seguedla. The results of these analyses allow us to reconstruct a wide Tortonian-Messinian wedge-top basin in the Tanger-Al Manzla area, when the leading edge of the Rif was at the frontal thrust of the Prerif. The presence of this wedge-top basin points to a Tortonian-Messinian compressional deformation that affected a wide area of the Rif, including the Prerif, Mesorif, and Intrarif. The late Miocene compressional deformation that affected the Mesorif and Intrarif occurred as out-of-sequence thrusting, due to renewed compressional tectonics in the internal zone of the chain triggered by the collision of the Rif accretionary wedge with the North African Margin. In the Neogene evolution of the Western Mediterranean subduction-related orogen, the late Miocene was a major pulse in the interplay between African and European plates, as evidenced by the increase in migration rates of some segments of the circum-Mediterranean fold-and-thrust belt, the out-of-sequence thrusting in the Rif, as well as the occurrence of late Miocene imbricate thrust structures in oceanic fracture zones of the African Plate (Central Atlantic Ocean).

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The Rif Chain (Northern Morocco) in the Late Tortonian‐Early Messinian Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean Orogenic Belt: Evidence From the Tanger‐Al Manzla Wedge‐Top Basin

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“…Figure 4 summarizes the facies contents of the palaeogeographical domains outlined in Figure 3, and highlights the recognized discontinuities (erosional, palaeokarstic and Fe-hardground-type surfaces) and the main calciturbidite and tectonosedimentary events. It should be noted that the Tamezzakht succession appears to be the most complete, with its facies being more clearly contrasted in the field (El Kadiri et al 2005). Its position in a transitional area between the Internal domain and the External one makes it a useful starting point for regional correlations.…”

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Regional correlations across the Internides-Externides front (northwestern Rif Belt, Morocco) during the Late Cretaceous-Early Burdigalian times: palaeogeographical and palaeotectonic implications

Kadiri

Hlila

Galdeano

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New insights into the palaeogeographical evolution of the Rifian Internides and their external surroundings are inferred from six key stratigraphic successions selected across the Internides-Externides front. These successions span a time interval ranging from the late Cretaceous to the early Burdigalian. The main results are: (1) important lost palaeogeographical domains should be located during the late Cretaceous-Eocene between the present-day Ghomarides and the Dorsale Calcaire, on one hand, and between the Predorsalian units and the Flysch Trough as isolated carbonate platforms, on the other hand; (2) during the late Eocene-early Oligocene an extensional tectonic event, well marked in the Dorsale Calcaire, caused the collapse of these platforms and resulted in olistostromes and coarse-grained breccias in both the Predorsalian and the Btni Ider areas; (3) by the beginning of mid-Oligocene, an overturning contractional event in the Ghomarides resulted in the regional onset of the siliciclastic depositional regime throughtout these palaeogeographical areas; (4) during the Aquitanian-early Burdigalian, the stepwise return of pelagic deposition in the Ghomarides indicates extensional phases, whereas the homogenization of the same pelagic facies over the Dorsale Calcaire and its external surroundings may indicate that the previously distant palaeogeographical areas were brought nearer (i.e. just before large-scale thrusting).The Gibraltar arc consists of two juxtaposed structural domains: (1) the Internal Domain, (Internides) where the orogenic contractions started from Oligocene time and generally resulted in high-grade metamorphism, particularly in its innermost part; (2) the External Domain (Externides), where the outward migrating orogenic contractions during Miocene time progressively produced piggyback-foredeep basins and ramp-anticline structures. The culmination of these phenomena during the paroxysmal phase resulted in a high accretionary prism and successive large-scale gravitational processes (Chalouan et al. 2006).The Tertiary sedimentary filling within and/or close to these forming basins was differently interpreted in both domains. Whereas there is acceptance that the filling of the main flysch depocentres in the External Domain occurred shortly before the paroxysmal nappe emplacement, or even as syntectonic deposits, competing hypotheses were presented for the equivalent strata in the Internal domain. Some workers attempted to link them to postorogenic deposits transgressively sealing the paroxysmal structures (e.g. Durand-Delga et al. 1993), whereas others considered them as recording a near-continuous marine regime entirely predating the main orogenic events (e.g. Maat6 1996). Recently, detailed stratigraphic studies of the Oligo-Miocene cover were carried out in the Malaguides (Guerrera et al. 1993;Martin-Martin et al.

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The Rif Belt

Chaloüan¹,

Michard

Kadiri

et al. 2008

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

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Lithostratigraphy and sedimentology of the latest Cretaceous-early Burdigalian Tamezzakht succession (Northern Rif, Morocco): consequences for its sequence stratigraphic interpretation

Cited by 10 publications

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The Rif Chain (Northern Morocco) in the Late Tortonian‐Early Messinian Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean Orogenic Belt: Evidence From the Tanger‐Al Manzla Wedge‐Top Basin

The Rif Chain (Northern Morocco) in the Late Tortonian‐Early Messinian Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean Orogenic Belt: Evidence From the Tanger‐Al Manzla Wedge‐Top Basin

Regional correlations across the Internides-Externides front (northwestern Rif Belt, Morocco) during the Late Cretaceous-Early Burdigalian times: palaeogeographical and palaeotectonic implications

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