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

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2017

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 lozenge-shaped depocenter completely enclosed by tectonic boundaries that we interpret as welds after former salt anticlines or salt walls. The exposed ca. 3000 m-thick infill of the Azag minibasin is asymmetric; layers are tilted to the W defining a rollover geometry. Areally-restricted sedimentary discontinuities and wedges of growth strata near the basin margins indicate sedimentation contemporaneous with diapiric rise of a Triassic ductile layer. Facies evolution through the basin reflects local accommodation by salt withdrawal and regional events in the High Atlas rift. The early basin infill in the Sinemurian and Pliensbachian shows thickness variations indicative of low-amplitude halokinetic movements, with reduced exposed thicknesses compared to surrounding areas. The exposed Toarcian and Aalenian deposits are also reduced in thickness compared to areas outside the basin. Subsidence increased dramatically in the Bajocian-early Bathonian (?), the main phase of downbuilding, when over 2600 m of carbonates and shales accumulated at a rate > 0.5 mm/a in the depocentral area of the minibasin governed by W-directed salt expulsion. The stratigraphic units distinguished often show maximum thicknesses and deeper facies in the depocentral area, and rapidly change to shallower facies at the basin margins. The Bajocian carbonate facies assemblage of the minibasin include: reservoir facies as microbialite-coral reefs in the basin margins (formed during periods of strong diapir inflation and bathymetric relief), basin-expansive oolite bars (formed during episodes of subdued relief), and organic-rich, dark lime mudstones and shales that show source-rock characteristics. The Azag basin is a good analog for the exploration of salt-related carbonate plays in rifts and continental margins where source-rock and reservoir can form in a same minibasin.  相似文献   

Geological evolution and structural style of the Palaeozoic Tafilalt sub‐basin,eastern Anti‐Atlas (Morocco,North Africa)     

E. A. Toto  F. Kaabouben  L. Zouhri  M. Belarbi  M. Benammi  M. Hafid  L. Boutib 《Geological Journal》2008,43(1):59-73

The Tafilalt is one of a number of generally unexplored sub‐basins in the eastern Anti‐Atlas of Morocco, all of which probably underwent a similar tectono‐stratigraphic evolution during the Palaeozoic Era. Analysis of over 1000 km of 2‐D seismic reflection profiles, with the interpretation of ten regional seismic sections and five isopach and isobath maps, suggests a multi‐phase deformation history for the Palaeozoic‐aged Tafilalt sub‐basins. Extensional phases were probably initiated in the Cambrian, followed by uniform thermal subsidence up to at least the end of the Silurian. Major extension and subsidence did not begin prior to Middle/Upper Devonian times. Extensional movements on the major faults bounding the basin to the north and to the south took place in synchronisation with Upper Devonian sedimentation, which provides the thickest part of the sedimentary sequence in the basin. The onset of the compressional phase in Carboniferous times is indicated by reflectors in the Carboniferous sequence progressively onlapping onto the Upper Devonian sequence. This period of compression developed folds and faults in the Upper Palaeozoic‐aged strata, producing a structural style characteristic of thin‐skinned fold and thrust belts. The Late Palaeozoic units are detached over a regional décollement with a northward tectonic vergence. The folds have been formed by the process of fault‐propagation folding related to the thrust imbricates that ramp up‐section from the décollement. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Inverted intracontinental basin and vertical tectonics: The Saharan Atlas in Tunisia     

Adel Rigane  Claude Gourmelen 《Journal of African Earth Sciences》2011,61(2):109-128

The present-day architecture of the Saharan Atlas in Tunisia can be defined by two principal models: (1) The first model emphasizes a general SW–NE geological structure in the North forming successive and parallel bands (the Tellian zone, the diapir zone) and the central Atlas, which are cut by the southern Atlas ranges located within a NW–SE corridor. These zones are bordered to the East by the “North–South Axis”. (2) The second model defines the Tunisian Atlas in terms of an E–W strike-slip corridor, which initially controls the sedimentary facies distribution during the Meso-Cenozoïc, and which then generates elongate en echelon folds in the sedimentary cover by dextral shearing.In this study, we aim to show that the Saharan Atlas in Tunisia appears today as a triangular megablock, that we call the Tunisian Block (TB), bounded by three structural trends (N–S, SW–NE and NW–SE) belonging to the African strike-slip fault network: (1) The eastern boundary appears as a complex faulted and folded corridor limiting the folded zone of the central Atlas in the West and the depressed zone of the Sahel in the East: it corresponds to the “North–South Axis” as defined classically in the literature. (2) The southern boundary also corresponds to a faulted belt (Gafsa–Negrine-Tozeur corridor), which cuts off the continuation of the North–South axis southward into the Gabès region; it corresponds to the Southern Saharan Atlas, delimited by the Gafsa fault in the North and the Negrine-Tozeur fault in the South. (3) The northern boundary, trending SW–NE, appears rather in the form of a reverse tectonic bundle, facing SE or S (oblique convergence), whose major feature corresponds to the El Alia-Téboursouk fault. This northern boundary cuts across and delimits the N–S corridor towards the North, in such a way that its extension is limited at both extremities. Finally, the inner part of the TB actually corresponds to a mosaic of second-order blocks, each of which contains an arrangement of widely spaced SW–NE trending anticlines forming the main relief separated by vast plains very often occupied by sebkhas. The paleogeographic and structural evolution of this region during the Mesozoic and Palaeogene shows that the TB, along with its limits as defined here, developed an increasingly distinct identity at a very early stage, being characterized by an extensive and/or transtensive tectonic regime. Finally, the Tunisian Atlas Chain defines a triangular domain that owes its origin and particular character precisely because of the paleogeographic and structural history of this paleoblock. The boundaries of this paleoblock remain mobile, thus tectonically controlling the geometry and morphology of a typical intracontinental basin. The extension directions and the frequent changes of stress regime (or rotations) are related to the existence of two active basins: the strike-slip margin of the western branch of Tethys and the Mesogea oceanic basin, with tectonic activity becoming alternately dominant in one or other of the basins at different times. In this context, the Tunisian basin is characterized by rhythmic sedimentation, composed of a succession of filling sequences linked to the continuing tectonic instability of the sedimentary floor associated with two major crises: one at the end of the Aptian and the other at the end of the Ypresian. The vertical movements related to the extension and/or transtension of the blocks is accentuated by Triassic salt tectonics, giving rise to linear (salt axes) or point (salt domes) structures that lead to the formation of shoal zones during development of the basin, thus enhancing the vertical tectonics. The diapirism developed slowly and gradually from late Triassic through to Langhian times, leading to numerous sedimentary wedges on the flanks of the structures. The uprise of the diapirs exhibits three pauses corresponding to the end-Aptian, end-Ypresian and pre-Burdigalian. The vertical tectonics is characterized by abundant drape folds giving rise to an extensional fault-related folding and strike-slip/dip-slip faults creating frequent unconformities that are nevertheless always localized.Finally, the folded chain results from the structural inversion of this paleoblock from Tortonian times onward. We can only account for the various folds-axis directions in the context of an intracontinental chain where the pre-existing major vertical faults are able to develop on the surface as draped-folds in a transpressive regime by the local reorientation of stresses in crustal-scale faults. In detail, the structures produced by this vertical tectonic activity, which are profoundly controlled by inheritance, display a highly original style at very shallow levels in the crust.  相似文献   

Weathering of a Quaternary glass-rich basalt in Bakrit,Middle Atlas Mountains,Morocco. Comparison with a glass-poor basalt     

Lhoucine Karrat  Alain Perruchot  Jean-Jacques Macaire 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(5):205-215

Abstract

We compared the disintegration processes and mineralogic and chemical evolution pathways of two Quaternary basalts at Bakrit and Ifrane, weathered in the same physiographic and hydrologic conditions, but differing in texture according to the quantity of glass present. At Bakrit, quite abundant glass favoured the formation of a microfissure network throughout the rock and its disintegration without any distinct weathering front. As a result, basaltic sand with polymineral grains and a clayey-silty matrix were produced. At Ifrane, weathering of a glass-poor basalt produced only a clayey-silty saprolite. In glass-rich basalts, secondary minerals formed in microfissures and were 2/1 clay-mineral rich. In glass-poor basalts, secondary minerals formed mainly within primary minerals and were 1/1 clay-mineral rich. Because glass could be easily dissolved, it protected the minerals of close chemical composition, especially the plagioclases. The order of basalt-mineral weathering (olivine, labrador, augite, Fe-Ti oxides) was modified when glass was abundant (glass, olivine, augite, labrador, Fe-Ti oxides). © Elsevier, Paris  相似文献   

Performance of temperature and radiation index models for point-scale snow water equivalent (SWE) simulations in the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains     

H. Bouamri  A. Boudhar  S. Gascoin 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(12):1844-1862

ABSTRACT

Four models of increasing complexity were tested and compared to simulate snow water equivalent at the local scale in the Moroccan High Atlas range. A classical temperature index model (TI) and three enhanced temperature index models that respectively include the potential clear-sky direct radiation (HTI), the incoming solar radiation (ETI-A) and net solar radiation (ETI-B), were subjected to annual and multi-annual calibration and cross-validated over the period 2003–2010. When calibrated yearly, the ETI models could be better transferred to other years, whereas all models, including the simple TI model, showed good transferability when calibrated over a longer period that includes inter-annual climate variability. No strong and recurrent relationships emerged between yearly calibrated model parameters and annual climate conditions. However, strong parameter compensation was observed for the enhanced models, which can be explained partly by the collinearity of air temperature and solar radiation causing equifinality of model parameters.  相似文献   

Impacts climatiques et anthropiques sur le fonctionnement hydrogéochimique du Lac Ifrah (Moyen Atlas marocain)     

I. Etebaai  H. Raddad  H. Benhardouz  O. Benhardouz  H. Miche 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(3):547-561

Résumé

Un suivi hydrogéochimique saisonnier du Lac Ifrah (Maroc) a été réalisé au cours des années 2003–2006 dans le but de caractériser son fonctionnement hydrogéochimique vis-à-vis des impacts climatiques et anthropiques. Le Lac Ifrah a beaucoup régressé au cours de la dernière décennie. Les eaux sont relativement alcalines, oxygénées, assez turbides et sursaturées en alcalino-terreux. La charge particulaire est moyennement élevée. Le faciès hydrogéochimique est généralement de type bicarbonaté chloro-sodique magnésien. Le lac a connu un déficit hydrique important sous l'effet de la récurrence des sécheresses et de la forte pression anthropique au cours des trois dernières décennies. Ceci s'est traduit par l'élévation de la salinité des eaux impliquant une augmentation de la conductivité électrique et des teneurs en alcalins (Na⁺ et K⁺) et en chlorures. Ce déficit est évalué également par la diminution des teneurs en alcalino-terreux (Ca²⁺ et Mg²⁺) à la suite de leur précipitation sous forme de carbonates endogéniques. Les indices de saturation vis-à-vis de la calcite, de l'aragonite et de la dolomite sont toujours supérieurs à zéro. L'augmentation des éléments nutritifs (phosphore et nitrates) et la dégradation de l'oxygénation des eaux reflètent l'accélération de l'eutrophisation du lac qui est reflétée aussi par l'augmentation de la charge particulaire et la turbidité des eaux.

Editeur Z.W. Kundzewicz

Citation Etebaai, I., Damnati, B., Raddad, H., Benhardouz, H., Benhardouz, O., Miche, H. et Taieb, M., 2012. Impacts climatique et anthropique sur le fonctionnement hydrogéochimique du Lac Ifrah (Moyen Atlas marocain). Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57 (3), 547–561.  相似文献   

分省普通地理图数据建库与编研——以新世纪版《国家普通地图集》为例     

王桂芝  王东华  乔俊军  周文  朱秀丽  赵飞 《地理信息世界》2016,(3)

新世纪版《中华人民共和国国家大地图集》编研项目的重要成果之一是《国家普通地图集》,而《国家普通地图集》的主要内容是分省地理图。新版分省地理图的编研,本着"先建库、后制图"的设计理念,充分利用国家1:1000 000基础地理信息数据库成果,并采用基于数据库的自动配图技术。本文主要介绍分省地理图的成果形态、编制技术路线、工艺流程和关键技术等。  相似文献   

激光雨滴谱仪测速误差对雨滴谱分布的影响   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

李淘  阮征  葛润生  金龙 《应用气象学报》2016,27(1):25-34

该文研究PARSIVEL激光雨滴谱仪的测量误差并提出订正方法。对2014年在广东阳江的PARSIVEL激光雨滴谱仪采集的两次降水过程数据进行分析发现,雨滴下落速度V随粒径D变化与静止大气中雨滴下落末速度随粒径变化的Atlas-Ulbrich曲线分布趋势一致,但D < 1 mm及D > 3 mm的速度偏差较大。其主要原因是大粒径雨滴形变造成速度偏离较大,仪器测量误差造成小粒径测速偏大,激光雨滴谱仪所在高度的大气垂直运动影响雨滴下落速度。根据PARSIVEL激光雨滴谱仪测量原理,基于雨滴形变与粒径关系,给出形变订正后的Atlas-Ulbrich修正曲线,并用于对小粒径测速订正。比较订正前后的雨滴谱分布,订正后的小雨滴浓度明显增加,大雨滴浓度略有减小,订正后浓度参数和斜率参数均增加,形状参数变化不明显。  相似文献   

Unraveling a distal segment of the West African Craton Paleozoic margin: Stratigraphy of the Mougueur inlier of the eastern High Atlas,Morocco     

《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2018,350(6):289-298

Because of its location in the boundary zone between the Anti-Atlas and the Atlas–Meseta crustal domains of Morocco, the Mougueur Paleozoic Massif is a key area to decipher the evolution of the Gondwana NW margin during the Paleozoic. In this work, we report for the first time the occurrence of Hirnantian sandstones, Silurian (Gorstian) graptolitic shales and probable Lower Devonian turbidites in the Massif. Comparison of our observations with regional stratigraphic data from literature allows us to suggest that the area was included in the distal part of the West African Craton passive margin during Cambrian-Devonian times.  相似文献   

Analyse hyperspectrale des carbonates jurassiques dans le Haut Atlas atlantique marocain : exemple du Lias inférieur de la formation d’Arigh Ouzla (bassin d’Essaouira)     

Rachid Baissa  Kamal Labbassi  Patrick Launeau  Brahim Ouajhain  Anne Gaudin 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2010,342(12):911-920

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