Geomorphometric Analysis for Mapping Platforms of the Mazagan Corridor, Morocco

The Mazagan corridor is located in the so-called Sahel-Doukkala and it is in the form of an elongated depression oriented N-S, , in which five platform surfaces are aligned in the principal direction and mainly formed by shell limestone and calcareous sandstones. For this purpose, the Digital Elevation Model was used as primary product to generate a digital map of these platforms and to infer the faults offsets in order to determine the displacements on the faults that border the Mazagan corridor. These faults, coupled with those of other authors, allow to build a synthesis map that highlights 3 families of faults. With a N-S tectonic constraint, the NNE faults delimit a collapse trough whose western limit constitutes the northern extension of the post-Devonian Drabla-Sidi Smain fault, which is itself a reactivation of a Cambrian rift boundary fault. On the other hand, the Oulad Ziane fault, seems to be inherited from the Cambrian and/or Devonian paleogeography and is reactivated in the Quaternary and probably influenced the Plio-Quaternary transgressions. {"references": ["M. Gigout, \"Etudes g\u00e9ologiques sur la meseta occidentale (arri\u00e8re-pays de Casablanca, Mazagan et Safi),\" 1951", "A. Habib, N. Akdim, F. El Ghandour, K. Labbassi, K. Khoshelham, and M. Menenti, \"Extraction and Accuracy Assessment of High Resolution DEM and Derived Orthoimages from ALOS-PRISM Data over Sahel-Doukkala (Morocco),\" Earth Sci. Informatics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 197\u2013217, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s12145-017-0287-5", "J. A. Stevenson, X. Sun, and N. C. Mitchell, \"Geomorphology Despeckling SRTM and other topographic data with a denoising algorithm,\" Geomorphology, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 238\u2013252, 2010", "K. Aboumaria, \"Les formations Quaternaires du Sahel des Doukkala (Meseta Occidentale Marocaine): Mise en Place et Evolution Post- Sedimentaires,\" 1993", "M. Ouadia, \"Les Formations Plio-Quaternaires dans le Domaine Mesetien occidental du Maroc entre Casablanca et Safi: Geomorphologie, Sedimentologie, Paleoenvironnements Quaternaires et Evolution Actuelle,\" Universite Mohammed V - Agdal, 1998", "A. Habib, J. M. Delgado, F. J. Van Leijen, L. Iannini, K. Labbassi, and M. Menenti, \"Land Deformation Monitoring Using PS-InSAR Technique Over Sahel-Doukkala (Morocco),\" in 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP), 2017, p. 6. DOI: 10.1109/ATSIP.2017.8075576", "M. Gigout, \"Carte g\u00e9ologique de la M\u00e9s\u00e9ta marocaine entre Settat et Mazagan (El Jadida) (Doukkala et Chaouia occidentale). Notice explicative,\" Notes M\u00e9moires du Serv. G\u00e9ologique, no. 75bis, 1965", "M. Ferr\u00e9, \"Hydrologie et Hydrog\u00e9ologie des Abda-Doukkala (Maroc occidental) : Applications aux probl\u00e8mes poses par la mise en valeur par irrigation.,\" Universit\u00e9 de Nancy, 1969", "A. Habib, \"Donn\u00e9es G\u00e9ospatiales Multi-Sources pour la Mod\u00e9lisation Hydro-G\u00e9omorphologique et la Cartographie des Lineaments dans le Sahel-Doukkala, Maroc : Apport de la Photogramm\u00e9trie Satellitaire et de l'interf\u00e9rom\u00e9trie Radar.,\" PhD. Universit\u00e9 Choua\u00efb Doukkali, 2016", "A. Habib, K. Labbassi, N. Akdim, and A. Tajdi, \"Contribution of the ALOS and LANDSAT data in the cartography and lineament analysis in the central Sahel (Western Morocco),\" Rev. Fr. Photogramm. Teledetect., no. 203, 2013. DOI: 10.52638/rfpt.2013.28"]}