“…The tectonic frame defining the structure of Neogene basins in northern and eastern Tunisia is the result of the pre-Miocene tectonic inheritance, influenced by the Lutetian and Priabonian compressional phases (Castany, 1956;Raoult, 1974;Vila, 1980;Ben Ayed et al, 1983;Bédir et al, 1992;Ben Ayed, 1993;Melki et al, 1999;Bouaziz et al, 2002;El Euch et al, 2004;Ben Chelbi et al, 2006;Khomsi et al, 2006;Masrouhi et al, 2008; Frizon de Synthetic Neogene stratigraphic log of north-eastern Tunisia based on the previous outcrop studies (Burollet, 1951;Besème and Lajmi, 1981;Bel Haj Ali et al, 1998). Lamotte et al, 2009) and the Oligocene extensional stage (Ben Ayed, 1993;Melki, 1997;Yaïch et al, 2000;Talbi et al, 2008;Melki et al, 2010).…”