Contribution of geophysics to determine the sedimentary filling and aquifers levels position within Dradere Soueire coastal basin (North Western Morocco)

Abstract

The Drader Souiere basin is a part of the hydrological basin of Sebou that is known by a high agricultural activity. The work aims to establish the relationship between sedimentary filling and aquifer facies distribution as well as to provide a new approach to interpretation, interpolation and identification. In this paper, a methodology that combines, a geological field and boreholes data with geophysical data (tomography, logging and seismic), is adopted and integrated, in a Geographic Information System (GIS), in order to establish isobaths map of Tortonian-Messinian marls bedrock, to determine the sequential position of Pliocene-Quaternary aquifers and to highlight the roles of deep structures in these aquifers arrangement. Tortonian-Messinian marls constitute the basin substrate; deposited on the Pre-Rif layers, from where he inherits his structuration, in the form of NW-SE ripples (an anticlinal-synclinal succession). The Pliocene-Quaternary sedimentary filling by paleo-channels, sea level oscillations and Miocene syn-sedimentary tectonics, give to the basin a «piano keys» geometry with various sedimentary environments. The most important aquifers of the basin match the regressive sea level periods of Zanclean and middle-upper Pleistocene. These new data provide other perspectives to quantitative research by hydrodynamic modeling of the water resources basin.