Comment on “Active coastal thrusting and folding, and uplift rate of the Sahel Anticline and Zemmouri earthquake area (Tell Atlas, Algeria)”, by S. Maouche, M. Meghraoui, C. Morhange, S. Belabbes, Y. Bouhadad, H. Haddoum. [Tectonophysics, 2011, 509, 69–80]

Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean

“…Mollusk faunal associations are not chronological markers per se but biostratigraphic markers if there are distinctive species present (e.g., Senegalese fauna with P. latus). However, the paleobotanical analyses carried out in a few selected cores recognized the pollen associations related to warm temperate climate characterized by broad-leaved trees which can be correlated with the general Eemian biostratigraphic unit also identified in other cores of northern Italy (Massari et al, 2004;Mullenders et al, 1996;Ravazzi et al, 4506 C. Cerrone et al: Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean 2014) and, on a broader scale, in northern Europe (Peeters et al, 2019). In light of this information, in our database, the stratigraphic unit of the coastal deposits of MIS 5e has been named with the generic definition of "Adriatic Tyrrhenian (Eemian pollen unit)".…”

“…suggested that "Terrace 1" in the area of Tipasa is located at 175-185 m a.s.l., at odds with other descriptions of this terrace. Subsequent comments and replies (Pedoja et al, 2013;Maouche et al, 2013) did not clarify this controversy, until the work of Authemayou et al (2016), where it seems clear that "Terrace 1" is located only up to 10 m a.s.l.…”

Sub-vertical low-velocity zone from P and S wave local tomography of the aftershock sequence of the Mw5.9 Chenoua (Algeria) earthquake of October 29, 1989: relict of the Miocene Eurasia–Africa suture zone?

“…Presently, Africa is converging at a rate of 5-7 mm/yr towards the north (Nocquet and Calais 2004;Serpelloni et al 2007; Figure 1 inset), reactivating the Tellian and Atlas fold and thrust belts (Benaouali et al 2006), as well as inverting the steep previously transtensional continent-ocean Algerian margin (Strzerzynski et al 2010;Déverchère et al 2005;Domzig et al 2006). North and south vergent anticlinal folding of the crustal slivers along the north-central coast of Algeria is probably responsible of most of the present-day coastal uplift, while relaxation of the margin flexure may still be responsible for part of a long wavelength uplift (Morel and Meghraoui 1996;Meghraoui et al 1996;Pedoja et al 2013;Authemayou et al 2016).…”