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Isabelle Moretti

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Influence of basement heterogeneity on the architecture of low subsidence rate Paleozoic intracratonic basins (Ahnet and Mouydir basins, Central Saha…

2018

Abstract. The Paleozoic intracratonic North African Platform is characterized by an association of arches (ridges, domes, swells or paleo-highs) and low subsidence rate syncline basins of different wavelengths (75–620 km). The structural framework of the platform results from the accretion of Archean and Proterozoic terranes during the Pan-African orogeny (750–580 Ma). The Ahnet and Mouydir basins are successively delimited from east to west by the Amguid El Biod, Arak-Foum Belrem, and Azzel Matti arches, bounded by inherited Precambrian sub-vertical fault systems which were repeatedly reactivated or inverted during the Paleozoic. Major unconformities are related to several tectonic events …

Horst and grabenPaleontologygeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryPaleozoicCarboniferousInversion (geology)OrogenySynclineFault (geology)DevonianGeology
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Influence of basement heterogeneity on the architecture of low subsidence rate Paleozoic intracratonic basins (Reggane, Ahnet, Mouydir and Illizi bas…

2018

The Paleozoic intracratonic North African Platform is characterized by an association of arches (ridges, domes, swells, or paleo-highs) and low subsidence rate syncline basins of different wavelengths (75–620 km). The Reggane, Ahnet, Mouydir and Illizi basins are successively delimited from east to west by the Amguid El Biod, Arak-Foum Belrem, and Azzel Matti arches. Through the analysis of new unpublished geological data (i.e., satellite images, well logs, seismic lines), the deposits associated with these arches and syncline basins exhibit thickness variations and facies changes ranging from continental to marine environments. The arches are characterized by thin amalgamated deposi…

010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesPaleozoicStratigraphyInversion (geology)Soil Science[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences010502 geochemistry & geophysics01 natural sciencesDevonianHorst and grabenPaleontologylcsh:StratigraphyGeochemistry and PetrologyCarboniferous[SDU.STU.AG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Applied geologylcsh:QE640-6990105 earth and related environmental sciencesEarth-Surface Processes[SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/TectonicsProterozoiclcsh:QE1-996.5PaleontologyGeologyOrogeny15. Life on landlcsh:GeologyGeophysicsSyncline[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/PaleontologyGeology
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