An integrate study of the Central High Atlas diapiric province in Morocco

Abstract

The Central High Atlas of Morocco is a Jurassic salt-related rift basin inverted during the Alpine orogeny characterized by an intricate polygonal network of salt walls separating minibasins. Field data on both structural geology and sedimentology of halokinetic sequences, thermal modelling and subsidence analysis, analogue modelling, diagenetic studies as well as balanced and restored cross-sections on Jurassic-aged diapiric structures and minibasins provide an integrated interpretation of Central High Atlas as well as multiple examples of the impact of syn- and post-rift diapiric activity on the evolution of the Jurassic basin of the Central High Atlas at different scales.