RT Journal Article
T1 Evolution of the ridges of Midelt-Errachidia section in the High Atlas revealed by paleomagnetic data
A1 Torres Lorenzo, Sara
A1 Casas Sáinz, Antonio María
A1 Villalaín Santamaría, Juan José
A1 Moussaid, B.
A1 Ruiz Martínez, Vicente Carlos
A1 El-Ouardi, Hmidou
AB New paleomagnetic data (43 sites) from Mesozoic sediments are contributed in this work, verifying the presence of a pervasive syntectonic Early Cretaceous remagnetization in the easternmost area of the Moroccan High Atlas. Using the small circle intersection method, we have calculated the characteristic remagnetization direction (Dec: 337.3, Inc: 38.4) that fits with a 100-Ma age, according to the Apparent Polar Wander Path of Africa. The paleomagnetic vectors of remagnetization are used to obtain the geometry during the remagnetization stage (100Ma) of one of the most renowned geological cross sections of the High Atlas, the Midelt-Errachidia profile. The partial restoration of the cross section at 100Ma allows us to determine the dips of the beds at the remagnetization stage in five structures (ridges or anticlines). Our results indicate that the five ridges that configure the Midelt-Errachidia profile were initiated to different degrees prior to wholesale compressive deformation during the Cenozoic. This configuration can be explained according to two different scenarios that we discuss in this paper: transpression and diapirism. The geological model obtained, both at present and at 100Ma, indicates the existence of a Mesozoic cover substantially decolled from the Paleozoic basement, what strongly contrasts with previously published transects of the same area.
PB Amer Geophysical Union
SN 0278-7407
YR 2018
FD 2018-09-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12934
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12934
LA eng
NO ©2018 Amer Geophysical Union This study was financed by the research projects CGL2012-38481 and CGL2016-77560 of the MINECO (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) with also FEDER founding (European Union). Sara Torres-Lopez acknowledges the financial support given by the grant of FPI by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of the Spanish government. The data used are listed in the table.
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO FEDER (European Union)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 may 2025