Where Precambrian and Jurassic rocks meet
by Remi Charton, PhD student at TUDelft, Delft, Netherlands
Unconformity found along the Lgezira Beach, north of Sidi-Ifni, Morocco. This contact shows that the Anti-Atlas basement rocks were at the surface during the deposition of the coarse clastics. New fossil control allows us to give a Jurassic age to the redbeds, while they are mapped as Early Cretaceous on all geological maps.
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- Africa (332)
- Northern Africa (137)
- Morocco (38)
- Exact location (-10.1168 W, 29.4462 N)
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2014
Submitted on 27 February 2017
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Remi Charton (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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