A PALEOCENE DEEP EPISODE IN THE ORAN AREA (DJEBEL TESSALA, ALGERIA) -THE OSTRACOFAUNA AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS

Authors
BOUZID R CARBONNEL G BELLIER JP TOUMARKINE M
Citation
R. Bouzid et al., A PALEOCENE DEEP EPISODE IN THE ORAN AREA (DJEBEL TESSALA, ALGERIA) -THE OSTRACOFAUNA AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre, 318(8), 1994, pp. 1133-1138
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre → ACNP
ISSN journal
07644450
Volume
318
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Pages
1133 - 1138
Database
ISI
SICI code
0764-4450(1994)318:8<1133:APDEIT>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
An Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene planktonic foraminifera (36 species) and ostracoda (39 species) inventory was drawn up in a section located North of Sidi Bel Abbes. Six standard biostratigraphic datum planes w ere individualized, ten ecozones or sub-ecozones of ostracoda were fou nd. For the first time, in this area of Algeria, the Paleocene is incr ibed in an irreprochable stratigraphic frame, and reveals a deep-dwell ing ostracofauna, comparable to the one which is known in the part of North Africa much further east.