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Figure 15: Reduced Bou Tazoult section. A and B, general views of the section. The logged section corresponds to picture B. In A, a (poorly-dated) violet continental succession (2) is intercalated between the Paleozoic basement and the Cenomanian Aoufouss Formation. Lithologic units : 1, basement; 2, coarsening-up violet fluvial sequence; 3, Cenomanian Aoufouss Formation (fluvial at base, marine at top); 4, fossiliferous dolomite beds of the uppermost Cenomanian (?) - Turonian marine flooding; 5, Senonian (Coniacian?) mixed, continental-marine deposits.