Phosphate rocks: A review of sedimentary and igneous occurrences in Morocco

R El Bamiki, O Raji, M Ouabid, A Elghali… - Minerals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Phosphate rocks are a vital resource for world food supply and security. They are the
primary raw material for phosphoric acid and fertilizers used in agriculture, and are …

Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Sahara, northern Africa

CS Swezey - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of the Cenozoic stratigraphic record in the Sahara, and
shows that the strata display some remarkably similar characteristics across much of the …

Patterns of Phanerozoic carbonate platform sedimentation

W Kiessling, E Flügel, JAN Golonka - Lethaia, 2003 - idunn.no
Carbonate platforms changed substantially in spatial extent, geometry, composition and
palaeogeographical distribution through the Phanerozoic. Although reef construction and …

[图书][B] Phanerozoic phosphorite depositional systems: a dynamic model for a sedimentary resource system

J Trappe - 1998 - Springer
The term phosphogenesis summarizes all processes of apatite precipitation/mineralization
which lead to the development of pristine (orthochemical, in-situ) phosphate fabrics. All …

Inversion tectonics of intracontinental ranges: High and Middle Atlas, Morocco

P Giese, V Jacobshagen - Geologische Rundschau, 1992 - Springer
Résumé Le Haut Atlas et le Moyen Atlas sont des chaînes intracontinentales situées dans
l'avant pays mobile de l'orogène méditerranéen du Rif. Elles se sont développées en trois …

A new species of Dyrosaurus (Crocodylomorpha, Dyrosauridae) from the early Eocene of Morocco: phylogenetic implications

S Jouve, M Iarochene, B Bouya… - Zoological Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
A new dyrosaurid is described from the Ypresian of the phosphatic deposits of the Oulad
Abdoun Basin of Morocco. It is based on numerous cranial and postcranial remains …

Cenozoic sedimentary dynamics of the Ouarzazate foreland basin (central High Atlas Mountains, Morocco)

A El Harfi, J Lang, J Salomon, E Chellai - International Journal of Earth …, 2001 - Springer
Cenozoic continental sedimentary deposits of the Southern Atlas named" Imerhane Group"
crop out (a) in the Ouarzazate foreland basin between the Precambrian basement of the Anti …

Dinoflagellate cyst evidence for the age, palaeoenvironment and paleoclimate of a new Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary section at the Bou Angueur syncline …

S Chakir, H Slimani, T Hssaida, L Kocsis… - Cretaceous …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present results of a palynological analysis of the phosphate succession
from the northern flank of the Bou Angueur syncline in the Middle Atlas (central Morocco) …

Maroccosuchus zennaroi (Crocodylia: Tomistominae) from the Eocene of Morocco: phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical implications of the basalmost …

S Jouve, B Bouya, M Amaghzaz… - Journal of Systematic …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Maroccosuchus zennaroi Jonet & Wouters, 1977 from the Ypresian of the Oulad Abdoun
Basin (Morocco) is described in detail based on numerous and well-preserved specimens. A …

New plesiosaur specimens from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and their implications for the ecology of the latest Cretaceous marine apex predators

P Vincent, N Bardet, A Houssaye, M Amaghzaz… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
Several clades of marine tetrapods, including the apex predators mosasaurs and
plesiosaurs, disappeared during the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, about …