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      • Easy trek of Berber villages - 2 days
      • Atlas Mountains Trekking and survival methods 8 days
      • Trek Toubkal Ascent - 3 Days
      • Colorful valleys Trek - 3 days
      • Authentic Berber valleys trek 5 days
      • Ouirgane Trek 3 days
      • Atlas Mountains trek highlights 8 days
      • Active treks Atlas Mountains
      • 12 day Toubkal Grand Tour
      • Atlas Morocco Discovery trek 15 days
    • Central High Atlas Mountains Treks >
      • Mount M'Goun Ascent 8 Days
      • Mgoun Trek and the Spectacular villages of the Happy Valley
      • Ait Bougmez villages trek 5 days.
      • 8 Day trek Rose Valley
      • Berber Trail of Angergui valley - 7 days
      • Grand Atlas Adventure trek 22 Days
    • Anti Atlas Mountains >
      • Sirwa trek anti-atlas mountains - 7 days
      • Djebel Saghro & nomades of Aït Atta 6 days trek
      • Tafraout and the Paradise valley trek - 7 days
    • Middle Atlas Mountains Trek >
      • Jebel Ayachi Ascent valleys trek - 6 Days
    • Sahara desert Treks >
      • 8 days trek the footpath of desert caravans
      • 13 day trek Erg Chegaga Sahara desert and Toubkal Ascent
      • Great Sahara Dunes Explore 7 days
      • Nomadic land of the middle Atlas - 8 days trek
      • Sahara Discovery Trek 6 Days
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    • Tour from Fez to Marrakech via Ouzoude waterfalls 2 days
    • Atlas & Sahara multi activities - 8 days
    • Combined overnight trip Atlas Mountains 2 days
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    • Sahara desert tour and Ouzoude waterfalls- 4 days
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      • Essaouira Mogador day trip
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      • Atlas Mountains biking day trip
      • Quad biking Atlas Mountains day trip
      • Full day horse riding atlas mountains day trip
      • Berber Cooking Class Atlas Mountains
      • Water Activities in Morocco
  • Family Tours -Treks
    • Berbere Atlas Experience - 2 days
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    • The dream of the Sahara - Family trip to Morocco​
    • MOROCCO FAMILY JOURNEY: ATLAS, SAHARA & BEYOND 14 days
    • Family Tour Marrakech & desert Dunes 7 days
  • Biking
    • Morocco cycling Tour Atlas to Sea 10 days
    • Sahara Desert Dunes MTB and Camel ride 6 days
    • Mountain bike in southern Morocco 8 days
    • Exotic Morocco trails by Mountain bike 8 days.
    • Atlas Mountain bike from Marrakech - 3 days
    • Southern Morocco MTB Tour 9 days
  • Ski Touring
    • Toubkal ski Touring 8 days
    • Atlas Toubkal ski Touring 4 days
    • Days skiing from Jnane Imlil
    • Oukaimeden ski experience 1-2 days
    • Atlas Mgoun ski Touring 8 days
    • Adventure skiing Atlas Mountains
    • Ski touring Experience M'Goun & Toubkal Mountains 10 Days
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  • Atlas Trails Horse Ride 4 Days
  • Scouts trip Atlas & Sahara
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  • Atlantic Coast & Argan Region 5 days
  • Scouts & School Trips to Morocco
  • History of Morocco
  • Sahara Dunes Experience 4 days
  • Desert culture and landscape 5 days
  • Sahara Desert Experience
  • Moroccan Nomads Trail experience
  • Morocco Real Food Adventure
  • Morocco Culinary Tour Experience 8 Days
  • Morocco Photography trip & discovery
  • Marrakech and Sahara dunes ​Photography tour 9 days
  • Southern Morocco Photography Trek
  • Argan region of southern Morocco 10 days
  • Berber Experience Atlas and Sahara Tour 7 days
  • Berber culture immersion
  • Southern Morocco Culture and Berber Traditions
  • Moroccan Languages Immersion Trip
  • Berber Lifestyle Experience
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    • Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan 5 Days
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    • Explore the Costa Brava 7 Days
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Morocco Geological Tours 

The geology of Morocco Structure, stratigraphy, and tectonics of the Africa-Atlantic-Mediterranean triple junction

Morocco is located in the northwestern part of Africa. It represents one of the sectors in the world where most of the problems of earth sciences can be tackled. It helps to understand the geological relationships that exist on the one hand between Africa and Europe and on the other hand, between Africa and the Americas (opening of the Atlantic). It allows us to travel back in time from the Paleoproterozoic to the present day. This succession of events makes Morocco a privileged field of study, but also a particularly complex area.
From North to South, Morocco includes three structural areas which are:
1- Rifain domain:
Belongs to the northern part of Morocco, it continues to the north by the Betic chain, to the east by the Tellian and Kabyle chains, bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and by the Atlas domain to the south. The Rifain domain is a unit of the bedding plows resulting from alpine orogeny. It includes three areas which are from North to South:
* The internal domain: is represented in two regions on the Mediterranean coast: between Sebta and Jabha and in Bokkoya. By origin, this area is linked to the Alboran plate, distinguished in the Mesozoic between Africa and Europe and consists of several crystalline and sedimentary units.
* The area of ​​the flysch tablecloths: is composed of detrital sedimentary series deposited in a deep basin, located at the margin of the Alboran plate.
* The external domain (external Rif): this is the major part of the chain which is formed by a set of slicks or carted tablecloths on an indigenous to para-indigenous substratum (intrariff, mesorif and prerifan zone).
2- Meseto-Atlas domain:
It is a domain bordered by the Rifain domain in the North, and by the anti-Atlas domain in the South; it includes three structural units:
* Atlas chains (Middle and High Atlas):
They represent an example of intracontinental chains structured by the alpine orogeny. They are limited by the South Atlas Accident (ASA) and the Rif, this area consists of:
a) Paleozoic Substratum: It is an age base from the Cambrian to the Carboniferous, represented mainly by sedimentary soils with intense bimodal volcanic activity in the Visean. This base was structured by the Hercynian orogeny responsible also for the establishment of numerous intrusions of granitoids.
b) Cover: formed of essentially carbonate, mesozoic and cenozoic terrains comprising two structural units: i) An area with pleated cover comprising the High Atlas and the pleated Middle Atlas, having undergone early alpine tectonics. ii) An area with tabular coverage: comprising the Causse middle atlasique, the Hauts Plateaux and the Pays des Horts in eastern Morocco.
* Trays :
Are tabular geographic areas extending between strings; they show a tabular alpine cover surmounting a tectonically stable primary base. These platforms are subdivided into two categories:
a) Central Plateau (Meseta Occidentale): It reveals part of the Hercynian substratum in the form of buttonholes during recent tertiary and quaternary movements. They are, going from SW towards NE; The Jebilet massif, Rhamna, central Morocco (central massif) and Tazzeka.
b) Highlands (Meseta Orientale): Located between the Middle Atlas and the High Atlas, they show a Hercynian substratum which is less visible compared to the Western meseta.
* The Low Plains or South Atlas Furrow:
They correspond to tectonically collapsed basins of the Mesetian and Atlas domain: i) Essaoura-Haouz basin which separates the Jebilets from the High Atlas, ii) Bahira-Tadla basin which separates the Jebilets from the Rhamna. and iii) South Rifain Furrow.
3- Anti-Atlas domain and these Saharan borders:
It’s the southern part, closely linked to the West African Craton (CWA) in the South. To the north it is limited by the South Atlas Accident (A.S.A), this area is formed by a Proterozoic basement.
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Southern Morocco geology trip 7 days

Day 1: Marrakech - Ouarzazate 265km.
After breakfast, we head towards Sidi Rahal mine rich in quartz chalcedonies, amethyst, agate, Lunch with the miner after lunch we drive through the Atlas Mountains Tichka pass and Telouet Valley to end in Ouarzazate.
Dinner and overnight at the Riad.

Day 2: Ouarzazate - Draa Valley - Alnif 235km.
Today we head towards Draa valley nice landscapes stop at Beni Zoli Ordovician site rich in big parts of huge trilobites. Picnic on the site afternoon drive further to Serradrar visit Silurian site collect black Orthoceras.
Dinner and overnight at a basic hotel in Alnif.

Day 3: Alnif and surrounding.
Morning departure from Alnif to visit the Cambrian site famous by its huge yellowish trilobites, picnic in the Oasis afternoon visit Ordovician site jebel Tiskaouine riche in calymenes and flexycalymenes. Evening back in the hotel.

Day 4: Alnif - Merzouga 135km.
After breakfast, we continue our tour to discover Isoumour famous trilobites post paradise. Where all species of Devonian trilobites lived together. Collect rolled phacops picnic on the site and head to Atchana site also Devonian. 
Dinner and overnight the Nomadic tents at the dunes of Merzouga.

Day 5: Merzouga.
Departure south towards Taouz visit the famous Kemkem site rich in fish crocodiles and spinosaurus bones and teeth. Then collect echinoderms in Boutariyt site. Picnic in the old mine of filon 12 famous by it s vanadinites quartz and goethite. Then visit Mifis old laid mine and back to the hotel in Merzouga.
Dinner and Overnight at the Hotel in Merzouga.

Day 6: Merzouga - Dades Gorges - Ait Ben Haddou 390km.
Departure towards Ouarzazate via Todra Gorges, Tinghir palm oasis, Dades gorges, and Skoura Kabahs, arrive in Ait Ben Haddou late afternoon.
Dinner and overnight at the Riad 

Day 7: Ait Ben Haddou - Marrakech 180km.
Morning visit of the Kasbah to collect echinoderms and nautilus mycrasters, Afternoon drive back to Marrakech via Tichka pass.
Arrival to Marrakech late evening, end of our services.

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  • Home
    • Contact us / Book
  • Tour packages
    • Combined Tours Mountains and Desert
    • Morocco Women only Tour
    • Explore Casablanca, Marrakech, Atlas Mountains & Essaouira 7 days
    • Explore Northern Morocco
    • Highlights of Morocco Tour - 16 days
    • Morocco Imperial Tour - Atlas & Sahara Experience 8 Days
    • North to South Morocco
    • Pure Morocco tour - 11 days
    • Classic Morocco Tour 15 days
    • Marrakech Ait Benhadou Atlas Mountains Essaouira
    • Morocco Four Seasons Tour - 14 days
    • Tour from Tangier to Marrakech – 10 days
    • Sahara desert tour atlas mountains trek - 8 days
    • Atlas Exotic Tour 7D/6N
    • Moroccan architecture Tours
    • Fortified Kasbahs and Palaces
    • Morocco Geological Tours
    • Morocco Holiday Packages
    • Morocco Deserts and beaches - 11 days
    • Moroccan Beach Hike 8 days
    • Tours From Tanger >
      • Tangier to Marrakech via Fez and Sahara - 5 days
      • Coastal Morocco: Cities and waterfalls
  • Walking & Hiking
    • Western High Atlas Mountains >
      • Day walks from Imlil
      • Assaoul summit 2700m trek Atlas Mountains - 1 day
      • Toubkal Summit Ascent Trek - 2 days
      • Toubkal Challenging Trek 2 days
      • Atlas Trek Imlil to Setti fadma - 2 days
      • Easy trek of Berber villages - 2 days
      • Atlas Mountains Trekking and survival methods 8 days
      • Trek Toubkal Ascent - 3 Days
      • Colorful valleys Trek - 3 days
      • Authentic Berber valleys trek 5 days
      • Ouirgane Trek 3 days
      • Atlas Mountains trek highlights 8 days
      • Active treks Atlas Mountains
      • 12 day Toubkal Grand Tour
      • Atlas Morocco Discovery trek 15 days
    • Central High Atlas Mountains Treks >
      • Mount M'Goun Ascent 8 Days
      • Mgoun Trek and the Spectacular villages of the Happy Valley
      • Ait Bougmez villages trek 5 days.
      • 8 Day trek Rose Valley
      • Berber Trail of Angergui valley - 7 days
      • Grand Atlas Adventure trek 22 Days
    • Anti Atlas Mountains >
      • Sirwa trek anti-atlas mountains - 7 days
      • Djebel Saghro & nomades of Aït Atta 6 days trek
      • Tafraout and the Paradise valley trek - 7 days
    • Middle Atlas Mountains Trek >
      • Jebel Ayachi Ascent valleys trek - 6 Days
    • Sahara desert Treks >
      • 8 days trek the footpath of desert caravans
      • 13 day trek Erg Chegaga Sahara desert and Toubkal Ascent
      • Great Sahara Dunes Explore 7 days
      • Nomadic land of the middle Atlas - 8 days trek
      • Sahara Discovery Trek 6 Days
  • Combined Tours
    • Tour from Fez to Marrakech via Ouzoude waterfalls 2 days
    • Atlas & Sahara multi activities - 8 days
    • Combined overnight trip Atlas Mountains 2 days
    • Atlas Marrakech Activities
    • Atlas Experience Camel ride and Hammam
    • Merzouga dunes Sahara desert tour 3 days
    • From Marrakech to Fez via Sahara desert 3 days
    • Atlas and Kasbahs - 3 days
    • Marrakech outdoor Activities - 3 days
    • Sahara desert tour and Atlas Mountains trek - 4 days
    • Fez to Marrakech via Sahara desert & Atlas Mountains - 4 days
    • Sahara desert tour and Ouzoude waterfalls- 4 days
    • Sahara desert Tour Toubkal Ascent 5 days
    • Atlas circuit Lake and Summits 7 days trek.
    • Horse riding and hiking in the Atlas Mountains
    • Exploring Atlas & Coast 3 Days
    • Unique Atlas Explore
  • HOTELS & RIADS
    • Atlas Mountains Luxury Hotels & Riads >
      • Riad Jnane Imlil
    • Marrakech Luxury Hotels & Authentic Riads
    • Sahara Desert Accommodation >
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      • Standard nomadic desert camps
    • Villa rental in Marrakech >
      • Villa Aziz
  • Day trips
    • From Marrakech >
      • Amizmiz valley day trip
      • Zat Valley Exotic Berber Villages
      • Challenging trek Asaoul Summit 2700m
      • Ski Resort Oukaimeden
      • The Three Valleys of the Atlas
      • Toubkal Challenge from Marrakech
      • Marrakech Spectacular activities Hot Air Ballooning, Golf and Atlas trek
      • What to do in Marrakech
      • Imlil valley Atlas Mountains day trip Marrakech
      • Combined day trip to the Atlas Mountains
      • Ourika Valley day trip Atlas Mountains
      • Essaouira Mogador day trip
      • Ouzoude waterfalls day trip
      • Ait Benhadou Ksars Kasbahs day trip
      • Atlas Mountains biking day trip
      • Quad biking Atlas Mountains day trip
      • Full day horse riding atlas mountains day trip
      • Berber Cooking Class Atlas Mountains
      • Water Activities in Morocco
  • Family Tours -Treks
    • Berbere Atlas Experience - 2 days
    • Essaouira and Atlas Mountains family trip 4 days
    • Atlas and Kasbahs family tour - 4 days
    • The dream of the Sahara - Family trip to Morocco​
    • MOROCCO FAMILY JOURNEY: ATLAS, SAHARA & BEYOND 14 days
    • Family Tour Marrakech & desert Dunes 7 days
  • Biking
    • Morocco cycling Tour Atlas to Sea 10 days
    • Sahara Desert Dunes MTB and Camel ride 6 days
    • Mountain bike in southern Morocco 8 days
    • Exotic Morocco trails by Mountain bike 8 days.
    • Atlas Mountain bike from Marrakech - 3 days
    • Southern Morocco MTB Tour 9 days
  • Ski Touring
    • Toubkal ski Touring 8 days
    • Atlas Toubkal ski Touring 4 days
    • Days skiing from Jnane Imlil
    • Oukaimeden ski experience 1-2 days
    • Atlas Mgoun ski Touring 8 days
    • Adventure skiing Atlas Mountains
    • Ski touring Experience M'Goun & Toubkal Mountains 10 Days
  • Business Travel in Morocco
  • School Trips to Morocco
  • Sport Events in Morocco
    • Atlas Trails & Marathons Training
  • Lowcost transfer service morocco
  • travel links exchange
  • luxury Morocco Golf Holidays
    • AMELKIS GOLF MARRAKECH
    • ATLAS GOLF MARRAKEC
    • AL MAADEN GOLF CLUB
  • Morocco Birdwatching Tour Atlas & Sahara
  • Discover Morocco on Horseback
  • The Charm of the Atlas on Horseback 9 Days​
  • Atlas Trails Horse Ride 4 Days
  • Scouts trip Atlas & Sahara
  • Morocco School Trips & Projects
  • Atlantic Coast & Argan Region 5 days
  • Scouts & School Trips to Morocco
  • History of Morocco
  • Sahara Dunes Experience 4 days
  • Desert culture and landscape 5 days
  • Sahara Desert Experience
  • Moroccan Nomads Trail experience
  • Morocco Real Food Adventure
  • Morocco Culinary Tour Experience 8 Days
  • Morocco Photography trip & discovery
  • Marrakech and Sahara dunes ​Photography tour 9 days
  • Southern Morocco Photography Trek
  • Argan region of southern Morocco 10 days
  • Berber Experience Atlas and Sahara Tour 7 days
  • Berber culture immersion
  • Southern Morocco Culture and Berber Traditions
  • Moroccan Languages Immersion Trip
  • Berber Lifestyle Experience
  • Egypt Tailor Made Tours
    • Egypt Tours & Sightseeing 8 days
    • Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan 5 Days
  • Tours in Spain
    • Costa del Azahar and Peniscola​ 5 Days
    • Explore the Costa Brava 7 Days
    • SAINT JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE AND GASTRONOMIC GALICIA - 7 DAYS