| Autor: |
Angel Arantegui, Remi Charton, Tim Luber, Giovanni Bertotti, Jonathan Redfern |
| Rok vydání: |
2015 |
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| Zdroj: |
77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2015, Madrid, Spain, 1-4 June 2015 |
| ISSN: |
2214-4609 |
| DOI: |
10.3997/2214-4609.201412968 |
| Popis: |
The Morocco segment of the Central Atlantic passive continental margin experienced km-scale exhumation during the early post-rift (late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous). In the Meseta and the High Atlas this led to the development of a N-S trending ridge sourcing terrigenous sediments which were brought to the Atlantic sea via wide rivers flowing on fairly flat plains. In correspondence with the W termination of the High Atlas, waters were deeper and no terrigenous sediments are found in the Lower Cretaceous. South of the High Atlas, exhumation followed a different pattern and led to the formation of a WSW-ENE striking topgraphic high which formed the first order divide of the region. Coeval sediments along the coast are sands to conglomerates deposited mainly in fluvial systems. The source-to-sink approach helps in predicting offshore distribution and characteristics of the sand bodies which form one of the most interesting reservoirs along the coast of NW Africa. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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