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PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages 106-112Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.11.009
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Glaciation; Anti-Atlas; Ediacaran; Correlation; Morocco
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This work reports for the first time evidence for an Ediacaran glaciation in Morocco on the West African Craton that we have named the Bou-Azzer glaciation. It is represented by glacially eroded surfaces and sedimentary features observed in Precambrian outcrops in two inliers of the Anti-Atlas Belt. The commonly accepted stratigraphic framework constrains the glacially eroded surfaces to post-date a regionally defined D2 deformational age known to be between 605 and 595 Ma. A minimum age for the glaciation is less certain but likely pre-dates the end of Ouarzazate Group deposition at 560 Ma. This age range permits two possible correlations to glacial events known from elsewhere: the Bou-Azzer glaciation could be equivalent to the Gaskiers glaciation (similar to 580 Ma), which has not been recognised previously in the West African Craton, or it could be a late Ediacaran glaciation (similar to 560 Ma), which has been suspected indifferent places on the Craton. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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