SEMINARIS DE LA FACULTAT DE GEOLOGIA I L'INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE LA TERRA 'JAUME ALMERA'
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Óscar MERINO-TOMÉ (Dpto. de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Espanya)


The Djebel Bou Dahar (DBD) carbonate platform (Lower Jurassic, Southern High Atlas, Morocco) is an intact high-relief platform that nucleated and evolved in a rift basin during the Hettangian through Pliensbachian, and drowned in the lowermost Toarcian. It measures roughly 35 by 4-10 km and is fully exposed as exhumed topography providing the almost unique conditions required for studies integrating high-resolution 3D lithofacies distributions and stratal geometries in carbonate platforms. Conventional field studies were integrated with digital field technologies (RTK GPS and LIDAR imaging) and highly detailed GIS-based geological mapping, in order to capture spatial information on platform architecture, stratal anatomies, sedimentary bodies, the spatial distribution of lithofacies and structural information. This huge team effort was accomplish during 5 field campaings (5-8 weeks each) and involved more than 11 people.