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TI Carbonate mounds of the Moroccan Mediterranean margin: Facies and environmental controls
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AF TERHZAZ, Loubna
   HAMOUMI, Naima
   SPEZZAFERRI, Silvia
   LOTFI, El Mostapha
   HENRIET, Jean-Pierre
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C1 Mohammed V Univ Rabat, Fac Sci Rabat, Mat Sci Res Ctr, Grp Res ODYSSEE,Mat Nanotechnol & Environm Lab LM, BP 1014, Rabat, Morocco.
   Univ Fribourg, Dept Geosci, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
   Mohammed V Univ Rabat, ENSET, BP 6207, Rabat, Morocco.
   Univ Ghent, Dept Geol & Soil Sci, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
C2 UNIV RABAT, MOROCCO
   UNIV FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND
   ENSET, MOROCCO
   UNIV GHENT, BELGIUM
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TC 4
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00445/55699/57370.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00445/55699/57371.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MD 194 / EUROFLEET - GATEWAY
BO Marion Dufresne
DE ;Carbonate mounds;Cold water corals;Sedimentology;Sedimentary geochemistry;Moroccan Mediterranean margin
AB Sedimentological and geochemical studies of boxcores from the Brittlestar Ridge I and Cabliers carbonate mounds, along the Moroccan Mediterranean margin, show that sediments are composed of cold water scleratian corals and micritic mud, muddy micrite or muddy allochem limestone matrix, outlining seven different facies that can be attributed to “cluster reefs”. The mixed siliciclastic/carbonate sediments have been derived from both extra- and intrabasinal sources. Extra-basinal sources may be the geological formations outcropping in the Moroccan hinterland and Sahara, the latter including corals and associated bioclasts. Sediments were transported by wind and rivers and redistributed by bottom currents and local upwelling. Our results confirm the role of tectonics in the genesis of these carbonate mounds and reveal that their developments during the Holocene (10.34–0.91 ka BP) was controlled by climatic fluctuations (e.g. Holocene Climate Optimum and Little Ice Age), eustatic sea level change, and hydrodynamic regime. 
PY 2018
PD JUN
SO Comptes Rendus Geoscience
SN 1631-0713
PU Elsevier France-editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier
VL 350
IS 5
UT 000439862300004
BP 212
EP 221
DI 10.1016/j.crte.2018.04.003
ID 55699
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