TECTONOSEDIMENTARY SUBDIVISIONS IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC TO EARLY CAMBRIAN COVER OF THE TAOUDENNI BASIN (ALGERIA-MAURITANIA-MALI)

Authors
MOUSSINEPOUCHKINE A BERTRANDSARFATI J
Citation
A. Moussinepouchkine et J. Bertrandsarfati, TECTONOSEDIMENTARY SUBDIVISIONS IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC TO EARLY CAMBRIAN COVER OF THE TAOUDENNI BASIN (ALGERIA-MAURITANIA-MALI), Journal of African earth sciences, and the Middle East, 24(4), 1997, pp. 425-443
Citations number
53
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Journal of African earth sciences, and the Middle East → ACNP
ISSN journal
08995362
Volume
24
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
425 - 443
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-5362(1997)24:4<425:TSITNT>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
During two mapping campaigns in Algeria, in the eastern part of the no rthern edge of the Taoudenni Basin, the imprints of tectonic events in the sediments of the Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian cover was obser ved. These were obviously linked to tectonic activity in the nearby do main of the Pan-African Orogenic Belt towards the east. This allows th e definition of new subdivisions in the cover and the proposal of corr elations with the Mauritanian part of the basin to the west, which can be extended to the entire northern Taoudenni Basin cover. A new geody namic interpretation of the sedimentation history within the cratonic basin is proposed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Limited.