In February 2024, researchers involved in the PRIN 2022 TEAMS (TErrestrial And Marginal Systems in a Hot World) project returned to southern Morocco to continue work begun in November 2023.

The second phase of the project, led by the Universities of Florence and Padua together with the CNR of Florence, focused on acquiring further data and samples of a succession of Cretaceous rocks deposited between 100 and 90 million years ago. The research focuses on acquiring data on a sequence consisting of three units that record the transition from fluvial continental environments to coastal plains and finally to a carbonate platform. The aim is to reconstruct the depositional environments, palaeogeography, geodynamic context, and climatic evolution of the area.

The next campaign will take place in autumn, with the researchers focusing on the fluvial and coastal succession.

In the video Anna Breda, associate professor of the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua; Matteo Belvedere associate professor of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence; Jacopo Nesi, PhD student at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence; Anna Andreetta, associate professor at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari; Camilla Vidi, research fellow at the Department of Geosciences, University of Padua; and Guido Roghi, researcher at the Institute of Geosciences and Georisources, CNR, Padua, describe the objectives of the exploratory mission and explain what can be observed directly in the field.

Photos and shooting by Anna Breda and Camilla Vidi

Video editing by Barbara Paknazar