Resumen de El complejo arrecifal del Mioceno superior de Tazouta (SE de Fez, Marruecos): Paleontología, paleoambientes y paleogeografía
Omar El Hamzaoui, H. Lachkhem, José Ángel González Delgado, Jorge Civis Llovera
An analysis based on the study of corals, coralline algae, accompanying fauna and microfacies allowed to define, in the Tazouta reef complexe (south east of Fes; Morocco), a marine platform characterized by a varied and complete paleoenvironmental spectrum (from the sub-littoral environment to the reef front one). On a paleogeographic level, three reef regions have been evidenced: a septentrional reef region where the paleoenvironmental spectrum is complete and where the biosedimentary dynamic was very varied in space and time, a central reef region where the environments were monotonnous and of an internal platform type and finally a meridional reef region exclusively characterising a reef wall. This north-south paleoenvironmental polarity was probaly and partly controlled by the irregular marine substrate which, in this region of Tazouta and since the first phases of reef bioconstructions, was marked by a deltaic marine front with fan-shaped lobes
