In February, we returned to southern Morocco to continue the work begun in November 2023.
In this second phase of the PRIN 2022 project, TEAMS, TErrestrial And Marginal System in a hot world, led by the University of Florence together with the University of Padua and the CNR of Florence, we focused on the acquisition of further data and samples of a succession of Cretaceous rocks, deposited between 100 and 90 million years ago.
The research focuses on the acquisition of data on a sequence consisting of three units that record the transition from fluvial continental environments, passing through coastal plains, to a carbonate platform, which testifies to marine ingression in the area.
The objective is to reconstruct the depositional environments, palaeogeography, geodynamic context and climatic evolution of the area.
The next campaign will take place in the autumn: our focus will be on the fluvial and coastal succession, which constitutes the stratigraphic basis of our interval of interest.