Quaternary Glaciations of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa

Philip D. Hughes; C. R. Fenton; Philip L. Gibbard

doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00076-3

Quaternary Glaciations of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa

Philip D. Hughes, C. R. Fenton, Philip L. Gibbard

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The Atlas Mountains display evidence of extensive Pleistocene glaciations. The largest ice fields and valley glaciers formed in the Toubkal massif where multiple glacial advances are recorded. A limited number of preliminary 10Be analyses from the oldest moraines have yielded exposure ages as old as 76 ka, intermediate moraines have yielded an age of 24 ka, whilst the youngest Pleistocene moraines correlate the Younger Dryas (12.9-11.7ka). © 2011 Elsevier B.V.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Developments in Quaternary Science\|Dev. Quat. Sci.
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Pages	1065-1074
Number of pages	9
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00076-3
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

Atlas mountains
Moraines
Palaeoclimate
Sahara
Toubkal

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