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Reconnaissance fieldwork, Morocco, February-March 2015

Morocco: Group photo showing Prof Jonathan Redfern and PhD Tim Luber from Manchester University, with representatives from ONHYM and Chevron, undertaking joint fieldwork.
Morocco: Taking mint tea and bread with a local family in a rural village, typical Moroccan hospitality.
Morocco: View of large modern river feeding from the High Atlas. The research is trying to determine where and how big the river systems were in the Cretaceous, 150 million years ago.
Morocco: Vehicles waiting in valley as we examine outcrop sections, High Atlas, Morocco.
Morocco: PhD Tim Luber (NARG) examines rocks and takes notes in the field.
Morocco: View of the Cretaceous rocks outcropping on the low foothills to the Atlas Mountains (in distance), south of Marrakech, Morocco.
Morocco: Fossiliferous limestone, Middle Jurassic (Tidili, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Reef deposits, Middle Jurassic (Tidili, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Algal mat, Lower Jurassic (Tizgui mad, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Lower Jurassic succession (Tizgui mad, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Synsedimentary fold in ooids GST levels, Lower Jurassic (Tizgui mad, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Limestones and red marls, Upper Jurassic (Paradise Valley, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Massive unit, Upper Jurassic (Paradise Valley, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Mudcracks, Upper Jurassic (Paradise Valley, Agadir Basin).
Morocco: Awatif Habid from the ONHYM, working on the Upper Jurassic units (Paradise Valley, Agadir Basin).

Biostratigraphy fieldwork, Morocco, March 2015

Morocco: Morocco: Dr Luc Bulot examining the Aptian/Albian section, ammonite biostratigraphy fieldwork, March 2015, Assaka, Morocco.
Morocco: Impressive exposure of the Barremian to Aptian Assaka section draped by modern travertine, biostratigraphy fieldwork, March 2015, Assaka, Morocco.
Morocco: Reworked glauconite/phosphate-rich unit at the Aprian/Albian transition, Assaka section, biostratigraphy fieldwork, March 2015, Assaka, Morocco.
Morocco: Dr Luc Bulot presenting ammonites of Early Aptian fossil-rich condensed section, Tamanar section, biostratigraphy fieldwork, March 2015, Tamanar, Morocco.
Morocco: Bark of an Argania Tree, Tamanar, March 2015, Morocco.
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