The early Pliocene Tirinesse basin (SW of Oued Laou, Rif, Morocco)proposal of a formation model
- Hlila, Rachid
- Sanz de Galdeano Equiza, Carlos
- El Kadiri, Khalil
- Guerra Merchán, Antonio
- Serrano Lozano, Francisco
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.