The E–W trending Atlas System of Maghreb consists of weakly shortened, intra-continental
fold belts associated with plateau areas (“Mesetas”), extending between the south …

The Tell-Rif (Tell in Algeria and Tunisia; Rif in Morocco) is the orogenic system fringing to
the south the West Mediterranean basins. This system comprises three major tectonic …

The widely debated late Oligocene-middle Miocene Numidian Fm (NF) consists of
supermature quartzose sediments deposited in the Maghrebian Flysch Basin (MFB) …

The Neogene sedimentary basins (Serravallian to Quaternary) of the Tellian tectonic
foreland in north-eastern Tunisia formed within the overall NE-SW sinistral strike-slip …

Structural interpretation of surface and subsurface data in the Eastern foreland basins of
Tunisia, allows us to recognize positive inversion structures, ie related to compressional …

Terra Nova, 24, 34–41, 2012 Abstract The origin of the Numidian Formation (latest
Oligocene to middle Miocene), characterized by ultra‐mature quartzose arenites with …

The Oligo-Miocene Numidian Flysch of northern Tunisia has long been divided into three
distinct lithostratigraphic units considered as vertically superimposed: the lower unit or the …

A review of the paleogeographic and tectonic reconstruction of the onshore and offshore
Tunisian margin during the Cenozoic is discussed. Five unconformities (A to E) and …

The structural pattern, tectono-sedimentary framework and geodynamic evolution for
Mesozoic and Cenozoic deep structures of the Gulf of Tunis (north-eastern Tunisia) are …

Detrital zircon U-Pb age distributions in Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks from the External Rif
and Maghrebian Flysch Complex (including the so-called Mauretanian internal flysch units) …