Аннотация:The western Moroccan basins are considered to have acted as stable regions during the postrift phase of the Central Atlantic rifting. Field data, however, show a period of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous exhumation. N−S shortening led to the formation of the Jbel Amsittene, located at the northwest most of Haha basin. This anticline was formed in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, as indicated by syn-tectonic wedges for this period. It is a salt-cored fault propagation fold verging north, with a Triassic salt acting as a detachment plane. Regional kinematic indicators and structures show NNW−SSE to NNE−SSW shortening during the postrift phase. These facts discard the ”salt-drives-tectonics” theory to let ”tectonic-drives-salt” one to rise.
