ARE THE TRIASSIC BODIES OF THE MONTS-DU-M ELLEGUE REGION (ALGERO-TUNISIAN BORDER) DIAPIRS OR SALT-GLACIERS

Authors
PERTHUISOT V AOUDJEHANE M BOUZENOUNE A HATIRA N LAATAR E MANSOURI A ROUVIER H SMATI A THIBIEROZ J
Citation
V. Perthuisot et al., ARE THE TRIASSIC BODIES OF THE MONTS-DU-M ELLEGUE REGION (ALGERO-TUNISIAN BORDER) DIAPIRS OR SALT-GLACIERS, Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France, 169(1), 1998, pp. 53-61
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France → ACNP
ISSN journal
00379409
Volume
169
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
53 - 61
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9409(1998)169:1<53:ATTBOT>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
The Triassic outcropping in the eastern Maghreb are generally consider ed to be the visible parts of diapiric structures of halokinetic origi n. The interpretation of some of them, located on the Algero-Tunisian border (Monts du Mellegue), as old submarine salt glaciers passively s et up during the Albian is neither consistent with the real geometric patterns nor with the rheologic characteristics of the model proposed.