Geochemistry and petrogenesis of early Ediacaran volcanic rocks from taourirte district (Western High Atlas, Morocco): Origin and geodynamic implications

Taib, Youssef; Touil, Ahmed; Aoudia, Mohamed; Hibti, Mohamed; Zouhair, Mohamed; Ouadjou, Abdelmalek

doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103936

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“…The Moroccan High Atlas is located north of the South Atlas Fault (SAF) which boards, in the south, the Anti-Atlas mountain constituting the northern limit of the West African Craton (WAC) (Ennih and Liégeois 2001;Taib et al 2020) (Fig. 2a and b).…”

Section: In the Northmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping soil erosion–prone sites through GIS and remote sensing for the Tifnout Askaoun watershed, southern Morocco

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The Moroccan High Atlas is very sensitive to soil erosion due to its steep slopes, torrential rains, and degraded plant cover. The degradation of fertile soils in this mountainous watershed influences negatively upon agricultural productivity. The objective of this study is to quantify soil erosion in the Tifnout Askaoun watershed in southern Morocco. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), the geographic information system (GIS) techniques, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data were adopted for mapping the annual rate of soil loss in this watershed area of around 1488 km 2 . The spatial distribution of annual soil erosion rates was obtained by integrating the geo-environmental variables into a GIS. These variables are the rainfall erosivity (R) generated from the TRMM data, the soil erodibility factor (K), the length and slope inclination (LS), the vegetation and management factor (C), and the practice support factor (P). Results reveal an average annual soil erosion rate of 14.44 t/ha/year and a good correlation with the slope length and steepness factor (r = 0.72) and in a lesser extent with the rainfall erosivity factor (r = 0.63). The sub-catchments of the study area were mapped and grouped into five classes of vulnerability to soil erosion risk, with results indicating that the Toubkal sub-catchment is the most threatened by water erosion risk as reflected by an average erosion rate of 48.05 t/ha/year. Approaches and results from this study, which was conducted between 2017 and 2019, may benefit researchers and decision-makers concerned with soil management primarily in mountainous areas where soil degradation impacts the activities of the rural population.

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Section: In the Northmentioning

confidence: 99%