Argana Group
| Argana Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Late Permian-Late Triassic | |
| Type | Group |
| Unit of | High Atlas |
| Sub-units | Irakern Formation, Timezgadiouine Formation, Bigoudine Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Shale, conglomerate |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 31°00′N 9°00′W / 31.0°N 9.0°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 7°24′N 5°54′W / 7.4°N 5.9°W |
| Region | Marrakesh Province |
| Country |  Morocco |
  Argana Group (Morocco) | |
The Argana Group is a Permian to Triassic geological group in the western High Atlas northeast of Agadir, Morocco.[1] Sometimes known as the Argana Formation, it contains eight geological members often divided into three formations. They include the Late Permian Ikakern Formation (members T1-T2), the Early Triassic to Carnian Timezgadiouine Formation (T3-T5), and the Late Triassic Bigoudine Formation (T6-T8).[2] Ornithischian tracks are geographically located in Marrakesh province.[2] Indeterminate theropod remains and tracks are geographically located in Marrakesh province.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Voigt, S.; Schneider, J. W.; Saber, H.; Hminna, A.; Lagnaoui, A.; Klein, H.; Brosig, A.; Fischer, J. (2011). "Complex Tetrapod Burrows From Middle Triassic Red Beds of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco)". PALAIOS. 26 (9). Society for Sedimentary Geology: 555–566. Bibcode:2011Palai..26..555V. doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-014r. S2CID 129863137.
- ^ a b c Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 528–529. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Further reading
[edit]- Martín Martín, J.D (2016), "Diapiric growth within an Early Jurassic rift basin: The Tazoult salt wall (central High Atlas, Morocco)", Tectonics, 35 (1): 1–31, Bibcode:2017Tecto..36....2M, doi:10.1002/2016TC004300, hdl:10261/142474 doi:10.1002/2016TC004300
- Domènech Verdaguer, Mireia (2015), Rift opening and inversion in the Marrakech High Atlas - integrated structural and thermochronologic study, Universitat de Barcelona, pp. 1–157
- Medina, Fida (2011), Nouveaux guides geologiques et miniers du Maroc - New Geological and Mining Guidebooks of Morocco - Vol 7 - Haut Atlas Occidental, Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, pp. 1–106, ISSN 0374-9789
- J.-M. Dutuit. 1980. Principaux characteres d'un genre de Dicynodonte du Trias marocain. [Principal characteristics of a dicynodont genus from the Moroccan Triassic]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 290(10):655-658
- J.-M. Dutuit. 1972. Découverte d'un Dinosaure ornithischien dans le Trias supérieur de l'Atlas occidental marocain [Discovery of an ornithischian dinosaur in the Upper Triassic of the Moroccan western Atlas]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D 275:2841-2844