The early Pliocene Tirinesse basin (SW of Oued Laou, Rif, Morocco)proposal of a formation model

  1. Hlila, Rachid
  2. Sanz de Galdeano Equiza, Carlos
  3. El Kadiri, Khalil
  4. Guerra Merchán, Antonio
  5. Serrano Lozano, Francisco
Revista:
Geogaceta

ISSN: 0213-683X

Año de publicación: 2014

Número: 56

Páginas: 31-34

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Geogaceta

Resumen

The Tirinesse basin, filled mainly by lower Pliocene marine sediments, is a small tectonic graben bounded by two NE-SW normal faults, with the eastern one surpassing 500 m in throw. These faults proved to belong to a much longer system of faults that transversally cut the entire Rifian Internal Zone. The subsidence of this basin was controlled by a jointed scissor movement of the two faults, which rotation axis coincided with the basin itself. This explains the important thickness of its sedimentary infilling, mainly occurred during the Zanclean.