U–Pb detrital zircon geochronology and source provenance in the Moroccan Meseta (Variscan belt): A perspective from the Rehamna massif

Metasandstones from early Cambrian to Carboniferous stratigraphic successions were sampled in the Rehamna massif of Western Meseta Morocco. The sample shows a single Paleoproterozoic population at ca. 2 Ga suggesting local basement source. Ordovician is largely dominated by Cryogenian-Ediacaran and minor peaks. Devonian reveals age populations similar North-West African spectra indicating that southern-derived West Gondwana source essentially pertained up Devonian. two samples show more heterogeneous zircon with marked Ediacaran peak accompanied Mesoproterozoic sub-peaks important re-organization drainage systems. One also presence Upper grains, which suggests magmatic sources associated formation intracontinental extensional basins. comparison detrital paleogeographic reconstructions indicate change can be interpreted framework opening Paleotethys ocean coeval erosion orogenic topographies linked emplacement Mid-Variscan Allochthon, and/or collision an Avalonian indenter north.