Abstract
The Moroccan Cretaceous North Saharian Platform is classically divided into three formations: Ifezouane (Albian?), Aoufous (Albo-Cenomanian) and Akrabou (Cenomano-Turonian). These deposits reflect a fluviatile or deltaic environment in the Albian?, evolving to a lagoonal environment or a paralic sabkha in the Albian and Middle–Late Cenomanian, and to an open marine platform during the Late Cenomanian and Turonian. This paper deals mainly with the Akrabou Formation, which consists of massive carbonates, divided into four lithostratigraphic units (C1, C2, T1 and T2) bounded by regional unconformities, and organized in four cyclic sequences respectively. Units C1 and C2 are dated as Late Cenomanian, based on foraminifera and ostracodes. Units T1 and T2 are attributed to the Turonian. The Cenomanian/Turonian boundary is a sedimentological and ecological unconformity. The correlations between the sections studied indicate that considerable subsidence took place in the Goulmima-Tadighoust area, at the centre of the basin. This study has also revealed that the Moroccan Preafrican Platform was connected to the Tethyan realm in Late Cenomanian and remained as such through Turonian. However, a minor connection also existed with the Central Atlantic.
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