1. Karst pockets of the paleoshores of the Rabat-Témara coast (Morocco) : age and mode of formation
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Chahid, D., Boudad, L., Lenoble, A., Campmas, E., Stoetzel, E., CHAKROUN, A., Nespoulet, R., Falguères, C., El Hajraoui, M.A., Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Moulay Ismail (UMI), De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Tunis, Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP), and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)
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[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
International audience; Karst pockets of the Rabat-Temara coastal area (northwestern Morocco) contain archeosedimentary in filling covering the entire Upper Pleistocene and Holocene. Thus, they have key role in researches focusing on North African Prehistory, due to their archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records.These cavities are known to be caves dug by the ouljien sea in calcarenite (marine and/or eolian) of Middle Pleistocene age. In light of observations on several recent and fossil caves, we discuss the formation mechanisms as well as the chronology of the shaping process, the morphology and the evolution of cave systems. We also describe the sedimentary deposits of these coastal caves according to the different stages of deposit.
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- 2016