“…In their study, Schnyder et al (2005) reported a major climate change with dry and cool phase, during the late Tithonian to early Berriasian transitioning to a more humid phase in the middle to late Berriasian, indicated by a general increase in kaolinite in the clay mineral assemblages. This trend from a dry climatic phase to a more humid one, is also recorded in higher paleolatitudes, from the boreal area, the northern margin of the Tethys Sea (Deconinck, 1987(Deconinck, , 1993Rasplus et al, 1987;Schnyder, 2003) and also documented southerly in Morocco (Agadir area), on the Atlantic domain (Daoudi et al, 1989;Daoudi and Deconinck, 1994).…”