The early Pliocene Tirinesse basin (SW of Oued Laou, Rif, Morocco): proposal of a formation model
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...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repositorio: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/10631 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10272/10631 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Pliocene Neotectonics Normal fault Tirinesse basin Internal Rif Plioceno Neotectónica Falla normal Cuenca de Tirinesse Rif Interno |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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