The southern Moroccan passive continental margin: An example of differentiated long-term landscape evolution in Gondwana

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 129-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Sehrt ◽  
Ulrich A. Glasmacher ◽  
Daniel F. Stockli ◽  
Haddou Jabour ◽  
Oliver Kluth
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Landscape Evolution ◽  
Passive Continental Margin

scholarly journals Hydrogeological dissimilarity of geodynamically different terranes

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
V. E. Glotov
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Sandy Loam ◽  
Active Continental Margin ◽  
Passive Continental Margin ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Active Margin ◽  
Water Abundance ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Weathering Processes

The article presents and analyzes the data on ground waters of active (suprapermafrost) and hindered (subpermafrost) water exchange of geodynamically different terrains in order to prove the hydrogeological importance of their historical and tectonic characteristics. On the example of Trans-Polar Chukotka it is shown that, under suprapermafrost conditions, the ubiquitous eluvial-deluvial nappes are the most water-abundant on the terrane – a fragment of the passive continental margin, whereas they are the least water-abundant on the terrains of the active margin. Hydrogeological situation changes under subpermafrost conditions: more permeable and water-retaining rocks compose the terranes of the active margin. These differences are associated with the level of rock tectonic decompaction and, accordingly, with different intensity of weathering processes in the terrane rocks of different geodynamic origin in suprapermafrost and subpermafrost conditions. The hypergenesis zone on the terranes of the passive continental margin features coarse-grained rock weathering products accumulated in relatively calm geological and historical environments, the aggregate is sandy. The terranes of the active margin, which underwent long-term subvertical and subhorizontal displacements contain more fine-grained weathering products; the aggregate includes sandy loam and clay sand. Since the permafrost strata in both Trans-Polar Chukotka and Eastern Siberia is greater than the depth of hypergene transformations, the terranes of the active continental margin, the rocks of which were impacted by tectonic decompaction processes, mainly of a strike-slip and thrust nature, feature greater water abundance in subpermafrost conditions.

Paleozoic formations of the Northeast margin of the European platform

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Eliseev ◽  
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A. I. Antoshkina ◽  
V. A. Saldin ◽  
N. Yu. Nikulova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Passive Continental Margin ◽  
European Continent ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geodynamic Reconstructions

Paleozoic sedimentary basins of the northeast European Platform is a component of large megabasin of the northeast passive continental margin of the European continent in the Paleozoic. The establishment of a connection between a paleodynamic history of a basin and its sedimentary formations types, which are the most reliable indicators of geodynamic conditions, is one of the primary problems of modern lithology. Reliable indicators at geodynamic reconstructions are genetically predetermined by laterial and vertical lines of the sedimentary formations. Formations and lithological complexes being the brightest indicators of the paleodynamic regimes change of the basin have been considered formations lines of the passive continental margin of the westuralian type during the Paleozoic.

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