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Applying Remotely Sensed Imagery to Extract Geological Lineaments South Rifian Ridges, Morocco
 
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Laboratory of Geosciences, Environment, and Associated Resources (LGERA). Faculty of Sciences Dhar Mehraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez-Morocco
 
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Geophysics and Natural Hazards Laboratory, Scientific Institute; Geophysics, Natural Patrimony and Green Chemistry Research Center "GEOPAC", Mohammed-V University in Rabat, Avenue Ibn Battouta, P.B 703, 10106 Rabat-City, Morocco
 
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Laboratory of Analysis and Modelling of Water and Natural Resources, Mohammadia School of Engineers, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco
 
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Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco.
 
 
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El Aoufir Mohammed   

Laboratory of Geosciences, Environment, and Associated Resources (LGERA). Faculty of Sciences Dhar Mehraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez-Morocco
 
 
Ecol. Eng. Environ. Technol. 2024; 7:118-132
 
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The South Rifain ridges are an example of tectonic-sedimentation interaction in the Mio-Plio-Quaternary foreland basins at the front of the Rif chain. is an elongated mountain zone-oriented E-W and N-S, forming the most frontal part of the Rif belt. The morphotectonic study carried out in this area is based on Landsat-8 OLI image processing techniques to determine the contribution of these images to structural mapping. The results obtained reveal a predominant E-W orientation, which is widely present throughout the study area. This is followed by a second N-S direction, a third NW-SE direction, and a fourth NE-SW direction. The NW-SE lineaments are also mapped in kilometres. Their equivalent on the ground shows a sinister movement but does not show a significant horizontal displacement of more than a few metres. Together with the NE-SW faults, these faults form a conjugate system of dextral and sinistral faults, compatible with a palaeostress field where the maximum shortening stress is submeridian.
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