Controls on dryland mountain landscape development along the NW Saharan desert margin: Insights from Quaternary river terrace sequences (Dadès River, south …

M Stokes, AE Mather, M Belfoul, F Faik, S Bouzid… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study documents river terraces from upstream reaches of the Dadès River, a major
fluvial system draining the south-central High Atlas Mountains. Terraces occur as straths …

Timing of Pleistocene glaciations in the High Atlas, Morocco: New 10Be and 36Cl exposure ages

PD Hughes, D Fink, Á Rodés, CR Fenton… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents data from 42 new samples yielding Late Pleistocene cosmogenic 10 Be
and 36 Cl exposure ages of moraine boulders across a series of glaciated valleys in the …

The 8 September 2023, MW 6.8, Morocco Earthquake: A Deep Transpressive Faulting Along the Active High Atlas Mountain Belt

D Cheloni, NA Famiglietti, C Tolomei… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 8 September 2023 an MW 6.8 earthquake struck the High Atlas Mountains of
western Morocco, about 70 km southwest from Marrakesh, causing significant devastation …

Morphotectonic segmentation and spatial variability of neotectonic activity along the Narmada–Son Fault, Western India: Remote sensing and GIS analysis

PN Joshi, DM Maurya, LS Chamyal - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
Morphotectonic analysis of landscape using remote sensing and GIS is an effective way of
deducing the pattern and spatial variation of neotectonic activity along poorly investigated …

Exploring spatial variations in geomorphic features of a young intracontinental orogenic belt: A case study of the High Atlas range

H Skikra, AV Argyriou, A Soulaimani, K Amrouch - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Morphotectonic parameters are sensitive to crustal and/or mantle dynamics, especially in
young convergent margins and contractional orogenic systems. In northwest Africa, the High …

[HTML][HTML] Plio–Quaternary Tectonic Activity in the Northern Nubian Belts: The Main Driving Forces

E Mantovani, M Viti, D Babbucci, C Tamburelli - Applied Sciences, 2025 - mdpi.com
It is suggested that the occurrence of tectonic activity in the northern Nubian belts (Tell-Rif
and Atlas systems) since the Late Pliocene can be interpreted as one of the processes that …

Structural geological analysis of the High Atlas (Morocco): evidences of a transpressional fold-thrust belt

A Ellero, G Ottria, MG Malusà… - Tectonics-recent …, 2012 - books.google.com
The High Atlas of Morocco, representing the southernmost element of the Perimediterrane‐-
an Alpine belts, is a typical example of intracontinental belt (Mattauer et al., 1977). It was …

[HTML][HTML] Tectonics of the Mw 6.8 Al Haouz earthquake (Morocco) reveals minor role of asthenospheric upwelling

MG Malusa, A Ellero, G Ottria - Tectonophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
A reliable identification of the fault responsible for the magnitude 6.8 Al Haouz earthquake
that struck Morocco on 8 September 2023 has so far been hampered by a lack of accurate …

Geomorphological signatures of the evolution of active normal faults along the Langshan Mountains, North China

C He, Y Cheng, G Rao, P Chen, J Hu, Y Yu… - Geodinamica …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Segmentation, propagation, and linkage of normal faults often occur in regions of active
extension, and observations of the distribution and structural properties of segment …

Transpressional tectonics in the Marrakech High Atlas: Insight by the geomorphic evolution of drainage basins

B Delcaillau, M Amrhar, M Namous, E Laville, K Pedoja… - Geomorphology, 2011 - Elsevier
The Ouzzelarh Massif extends across the Marrakech High Atlas (MHA) and forms the
highest elevated mountain belt. To better understand the evolution of collision-related …