Abstract
We provide lithological, sedimentological and micropalaeontological descriptions of 39 sections and boreholes crossing the upper Miocene deposits of the Rifian Corridor. These deposits represent the sedimentary remnants of the marine gateway that connected the Atlantic to the Mediterranean in the late Miocene. Results from these 39 sites were adopted to reconstruct the palaeogeographic evolution of the gateway presented in the associated research article (Capella et al., 2018) [1]. For each outcrop we present a synthesis of field observations, lithofacies, key sedimentological features, planktic and benthic assemblages.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 712-736 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Data in Brief |
| Volume | 19 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
Funding
We thank Roland Wernli (Univ. Genève) for kindly answering our questions and for sending his manuscript; ONHYM for providing prompt assistance, field support and unpublished datasets; the Ministry of Geology in Rabat for allowing us to analyse the sample collections; Abdel Mojid Kouissi (Bab Tiouka commune, Sidi Kacem) for his extraordinary help during several fieldwork campaigns. The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013/under REA Grant agreement no. 290201 ( MEDGATE ). We are very grateful to all the MEDGATE for the contribution to the fieldwork and all the insightful discussions that enriched this four-year work. Transparency document
