Les assemblages de diatomées du bassin messinien de Boudinar (Maroc nord-oriental) |
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Authors: | Fatima Zahra El Ouahabi Jean-Paul Saint Martin Abdelkhalak Ben Moussa |
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Institution: | a Département de géologie, faculté des sciences, BP 2121, 93000 Tétouan, Maroc b Laboratoire de paléontologie, université de Bucarest, 1, boulevard Balcescu, Bucarest, Roumanie c UMR 5143 paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements, département histoire de la Terre, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, 8, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France d Centre de sédimentologie-paléontologie, université de Provence, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France |
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Abstract: | The Messinian is one of the strongest biogenic silica accumulation periods in the world and more particularly in the Mediterranean, where it is marked by an important diatomitic sedimentation. In the Boudinar basin (Morocco north-Eastern, Western Mediterranean), the section of Sidi Haj Youssef, localised near the volcano of Ras Tarf, has approximately 100 m thickness of clayey-marly series in which 12 diatomitic levels of variable thickness are intercalated. The microfloristic study of diatoms on 86 samples, carried out in detail for the first time, made it possible to recognize 50 genus of diatoms (24 of centric and 26 of pennate) represented by 185 species (75 species of centric and 110 species of pennate). Four hundred individuals were taken from each sample to determine the relative frequency of each taxon within the diatoms assemblages. Thus, several assemblages were defined by the predominance of the following species: Coscinodiscusmarginatus, Actinoptychussenarius, Thalassionemanitzschioides, Actinocycluscurvatulus, Thalassiothrixlongissima, Rhizosoleniastyliformis and Actinocyclusehrenbergii. These diatoms assemblages display a littoral marine environment in communication with the opened sea. The abundance of the cold water species towards the base and the top of the section suggests broad exchanges of the basin with the Atlantic Ocean in Messinian. The predominance of the species Thalassionemanitzschioides and/or Thalassiothrixlongissima indicates periods of strong productivity that can be associated to upwelling systems. |
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Keywords: | Diatomé es Palé oé cologie Messinien Maroc |
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