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Map showing the Atlas Mountains across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia in North Africa, with color shading to indicate elevation changes. Major mountain ranges, cities, rivers, and physical features such as the High Atlas, Anti-Atlas, Saharan Atlas, and surrounding deserts are labeled. An inset locator map highlights the region's position in northern Africa. Snow-capped, rugged Atlas Mountains encircle a green valley with scattered trees, terraced fields, and a few small buildings in Morocco. Snow-dusted Toubkal peak rises above rugged slopes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco under a clear sky, with a forested area at the base.
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Snow-capped, rugged Atlas Mountains encircle a green valley with scattered trees, terraced fields, and a few small buildings in Morocco.
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The best general treatment of the physical and human geography of the Atlas Mountains is Jean Despois and René Raynal, Géographie de l’Afrique du nord-ouest (1967, reissued 1975). A good overview of the region is also offered by J.M. Houston, The Western Mediterranean World: An Introduction to Its Regional Landscapes (1964). Information on livelihood and environmental modifications in the Rif Mountains appears in a short work by Marvin W. Mikesell, Northern Morocco: A Cultural Geography (1961, reprinted 1985). The best one-volume survey of the culture of the peoples of the Atlas region is Ernest Gellner and Charles Micaud (eds.), Arabs and Berbers: From Tribe to Nation in North Africa (1972).

Marvin W. Mikesell

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Invalidated site: University of Glasgow - Enlighten Publications - Timing of Pleistocene glaciations in the High Atlas, Morocco: new 10Be and 36Cl exposure ages (PDF). Sep 08, 2026
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Quaternary glaciation in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa (PDF). Mar 08, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Glasgow - Enlighten Publications - Timing of Pleistocene glaciations in the High Atlas, Morocco: new 10Be and 36Cl exposure ages (PDF). Jan 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Archnet - Atlas Mountains - Dumbarton Oaks Middle East Garden Traditions. Nov 29, 2024
Add new Web site: CNN - Atlas Mountains: Morocco?s hidden travel gem. Sep 04, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - Electrical signature of modern and ancient tectonic processes in the crust of the Atlas mountains of Morocco. Jul 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Dumbarton Oaks - Atlas Mountains. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: NASA - Earth Observatory - Morocco?s High Atlas Mountains. Feb 20, 2020
Changed "Shilha" to "Ishelhiyen." Jul 03, 2012
In The people section, changed "Shluh" to "Shilha." Jun 19, 2012
Geologic time data updated. Sep 24, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Atlas Mountains. Jul 01, 2008
Added new Web site: Ridiscover Morocco - Atlas Mountains. Nov 05, 2007
Added new Web site: Ridiscover Morocco - Atlas Mountains. Nov 05, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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