International audienceAptian to early Albian times are marked by various geodynamic and paleoenvironmental events such as large igneous province volcanism , perturbations of climate and the carbon cycle, and sea-level changes. The Essaouira-Agadir basin (EAB), located on the Atlantic passive margin of Morocco, offers good and fossiliferous exposures of the Aptian-Albian sedimentary series. A detailed analysis of this succession made it possible to establish a biostratigraphic framework. The identification of discontinuities allowed to define eight depositional sequences. As most of them are correlatable with depositional sequences of other Tethyan areas, they suggest that eustacy was the main parameter controlling sedimentation. The analysi...