Environmental controls on the Late Holocene carbonate sedimentation of a karstic lake in the Middle-Atlas Mountains (Lake Afourgagh, Morocco)

• Published in: Sedimentology Vol. 60; no. 5; pp. 1231 - 1256
• Main Authors: Détriché, Sébastien, Bréhéret, Jean-Gabriel, Karrat, L'houcine, Hinschberger, Florent, Macaire, Jean-Jacques
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Madrid Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Charophytes; Continental interfaces, environment; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Sciences; karstic lake; lacustrine depositional environments; magnesite; microstromatolites; Sciences of the Universe; spherulites; Morocco; lacustrine depositional environments; Karstic lake; Magnesite; Charophytes; Spherulites; microstromatolites

The Lake Afourgagh sediment record and facies successions provide an outstanding example of environmentally controlled carbonate sedimentation. Afourgagh is a small, shallow permanent lake located in the Middle‐Atlas Mountains in Morocco in a karstic context. It is fed by ground waters that are rela...