page_title: Azilal Formation
hierarchical_section_title: Azilal Formation
caption_attribution_description: Polski: W Atlasie Wysokim
context_page_description: The Azilal Formation, also known as Toundute Continental Series & Wazzant Formation is a geological unit in the Azilal & Ouarzazate provinces of the High Atlas of Morocco, that cover the Middle Toarcian to Lower Aalenian stages of the Jurassic Period. It is a terrestrial deposit which overlies marine dolomites of equivalent age to the Budoš Limestone of Montenegro or the Marne di Monte Serrone of Italy. Dinosaur remains, such the Sauropod Tazoudasaurus and the Basal Ceratosaur Berberosaurus are known from the unit, along with several undescribed genera. The Units inside the group have been considered individual on the past, being a division of the so-called "Couches rouges", and subdivided by a supposed geological scale. The strata of the group extends towards the Central High Atlas, covering different anticlines, and topographic accidents along the range of the Mountains. Although new studies have suggested that the strata is coeval in age, and should be referred to as a unique unit. The Group is believed to have been a mostly deltaic, and river channels filled a succession of seashore and inland environments, covering the late Liassic coast of modern northern Africa.
context_section_description: The Azilal Formation, also known as Toundute Continental Series & Wazzant Formation is a geological unit in the Azilal & Ouarzazate provinces of the High Atlas of Morocco, that cover the Middle Toarcian to Lower Aalenian stages of the Jurassic Period. It is a terrestrial deposit which overlies marine dolomites of equivalent age to the Budoš Limestone of Montenegro or the Marne di Monte Serrone of Italy.  Dinosaur remains, such the Sauropod Tazoudasaurus and the Basal Ceratosaur Berberosaurus are known from the unit, along with several undescribed genera. The Units inside the group have been considered individual on the past, being a division of the so-called "Couches rouges", and subdivided by a supposed geological scale. The strata of the group extends towards the Central High Atlas, covering different anticlines, and topographic accidents along the range of the Mountains. Although new studies have suggested that the strata is coeval in age, and should be referred to as a unique unit. The Group is believed to have been a mostly deltaic, and river channels filled a succession of seashore and inland environments, covering the late Liassic coast of modern northern Africa. Based on observed halokinetic strata, the Tazoult Ridge (that recovers part of the Tafraout Formation) evolved as a Salt Wall forming a 20 km long NE-SW trending structural and sedimentary high for at least 20 million years, between Pliensbachian-Bajocian periods. This emerged small landmass generated a great local Diapir, with continuous Diapirism until the end of the Aalenian.
caption: Panoramic of the High Atlas on Azilal
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