Geology, facies model and coral associations of the Late Jurassic reef complex at Cape Ghir (Atlantic High Atlas, Morocco)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-74

  Martin Garin, Bertrand ^a,b,c   Lathuilière, Bernard ^b   Geister, Jörn ^a,d,e   Chellai, El Hassan ^f   Huault, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c Tethys Ocean   (France)

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM DER BURGERGEMEINDE BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Anticline; Associations; Corals; Late Jurassic; Morocco; Reef; Tilted block

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; FACIES; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOLOGY; JURASSIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

ANTHOZOA; DIMORPHARAEA; GASTROPODA; STROMATOPOROIDA;

EID: 33846949689     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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