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		The population of the Atlas Mountains are mainly Berber tribes in Morocco and kabyles in Algeria.
		North of the Middle Atlas and separated by the Sebou River, the Rif mountains are an extension of the Baetic Cordillera (Baetic mountains, which include the Sierra Nevada) in the south of Spain.
		The Saharan Atlas of Algeria is the eastern portion of the Atlas mountain range.
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	Atlas Mountains - LoveToKnow Watches
		The lower portion of the Moroccan Atlas (sometimes called the Middle Atlas), extending north - east and east from an undefined point to the north of the Great Atlas to near the frontier of Algeria, is crossed by the pass from Fez to Tafilalt.
		The Saharan Atlas is essentially one chain, though known under different names: Jebel K'sur and Jebel Amur on the west, and Jebel Aures in the east.
		The name Atlas given to these mountains by Europeans - but never used by the native races - is derived from that of the mythical Greek god represented as carrying the globe on his shoulders, and applied to the high and distant mountains of the west, where Atlas was supposed to dwell.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Atlas_Mountains (1639 words)

	Atlas Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The population of the Atlas mountains are mainly Berber in Morocco and Arab in Algeria.
		North of the Middle Atlas and separated by the Sebou River, the Rif mountains are an extension of the Baetic Cordillera (Baetic mountains, which include the Sierra Nevada) in the south of Spain.
		The Saharan Atlas of Algeria is the eastern portion of the Atlas mountain range.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlas_Mountains (1291 words)

	Atlas Mountains - MSN Encarta
		Geologically, the system is made of two separate parts: the High Atlas of the south-west, in Morocco, was formed by the folding of the ancient Saharan plateau, while the eastern Tell Atlas, in Algeria and Tunisia, was formed in a later, separate folding episode contemporary with the formation of the Alpine system of Europe.
		The northern slopes of the High Atlas and the northern and southern slopes of the Middle Atlas are densely forested; cedar, pine, cork, and oak are the predominant species of trees.
		The Atlas Mountains are the traditional habitat of the Berbers, who were driven inland to the mountains by the Arabs in the 7th century.
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	Algeria - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Little Atlas, otherwise the Tell or Maritime Atlas, lies between the sea and the Saharan Atlas, and is composed of many distinct ranges, generally of no great elevation and connected by numerous transverse chains forming extensive table-lands and elevated valleys.
		The principal ranges of the Little Atlas - from west to east - are the Tlemcen (5500 ft.); the Warsenis (with Kef Sidi Omar, 650o ft.); the Titeri (4900 ft.); the Jurjura, with the peak of Lalla Kedija (7542 ft.) and Mount Babor (6447 ft.); and the Mejerda (3700 ft.), which extends into Tunisia.
		Near Jelfa, in the Great Atlas, and at Mechera-Sfa (" ford of the flat stones"), a peninsula in the valley of the river Mina not far from Tiaret in the department of Oran, are vast numbers of megalithic monuments.
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	TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
		The Tellian and Saharan Atlas Mountain ranges cross the country from east to west, dividing it into three zones.
		Between the northern zone, Tellian Atlas, and the Mediterranean is a narrow, fertile coastal plain--the Tell (Arabic for hill)--with a moderate climate year round and rainfall adequate for agriculture.
		The third and largest zone, south of the Saharan Atlas range of mountains, is mostly desert.
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		The population of the Atlas Mountains are mainly Berber tribes in Morocco and kabyles in Algeria.
		North of the Middle Atlas and separated by the Sebou River, the Rif mountains are an extension of the Baetic Cordillera (Baetic mountains, which include the Sierra Nevada) in the south of Spain.
		The Saharan Atlas of Algeria is the eastern portion of the Atlas mountain range.
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	Algeria - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The mountains of the Tell Atlas, a range of the Atlas Mountains, rise behind the plain, parallel and close to the sea.
		South of the Tell Atlas is the High Plateau, a highland region of level terrain.
		The coastal plain and Tell Atlas in the north have a typical Mediterranean climate, with warm, dry summers and mild, rainy winters.
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	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Atlas Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ATLAS MOUNTAINS [Atlas Mountains] system of ranges and plateaus in NW Africa, extending c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) from SW Morocco, through N Algeria, to N Tunisia; Jebel Toubkal (13,671 ft/4,167 m), in SW Morocco, is the highest peak.
		The Atlas system is most rugged in Morocco, where, from north to south, the Rif (or Rif Atlas), Middle Atlas, High or Grand Atlas (the highest part of the system), and Anti-Atlas are found; fertile lowlands separate the ranges.
		Small arms big money: from marriage feuds in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to fundamentalist-inspired violence striking fear in the heart of the oil rich Gulf states, the weapons being employed are conventional and all-too-easily obtainable.
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	Algeria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The northern region, which is part of the Maghreb, is made up of four parallel east-west zones: a narrow lowland strip (interspersed with mountains) along the country’s 600-mi (970-km) Mediterranean coastline; the Tell Atlas Mts.
		The arid and very sparsely populated Saharan region has an average elevation of c.1,500 ft (460 m), but reaches greater heights in the Ahaggar Mts.
		The Romans also gained control of the Tell Atlas region and part of the Plateau of the Chotts; the rest of present-day Algeria remained under Berber rulers and was outside Roman rule.
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	Atlas Mountains
		The Atlas is divided into 5 regions, and stretch from Morocco, through northern Algeria, until it touches Tunisia.
		Algeria takes part in the Atlas with the Saharan Atlas, and the Tell, which starts around the middle of Algeria, before wending its course along the Algerian coast, touching Tunisia, and offering the only mountainous area of this country.
		While there were many forests in the Atlas earlier, much of this has been exploited, and the cedar, once very common, are almost totally gone.
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	ATLAS MOUNTAINS,
		Abila or Abyla), a promontory (846 m/2775 ft) marking the W extremity of the Little Atlas, and the Rock of Gibraltar, on the European side of the strait, are called the Pillars of Hercules.
		The Atlas system is traversed by numerous passes that provide routes between the coast and the Sahara.
		The N slopes of the High Atlas and the N and S slopes of the Middle Atlas are densely forested; cedar, pine, cork, and oak are the predominant species of trees.
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		Lying to the N, in central Morocco, is the next loftiest range, the Middle Atlas, with a maximum elevation of about 3350 m (about 11,000 ft).
		Abila or Abyla), a promontory (846 m/2775 ft) marking the W extremity of the Little Atlas, and the Rock of Gibraltar, on the European side of the strait, are called the Pillars of Hercules.
		The N slopes of the High Atlas and the N and S slopes of the Middle Atlas are densely forested; cedar, pine, cork, and oak are the predominant species of trees.
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	Atlas Mountains
		The Atlas is divided into 5 regions, and stretch from Morocco, through northern Algeria, until it touches Tunisia.
		Algeria takes part in the Atlas with the Saharan Atlas, and the Tell, which starts around the middle of Algeria, before wending its course along the Algerian coast, touching Tunisia, and offering the only mountainous area of this country.
		While there were many forests in the Atlas earlier, much of this has been exploited, and the cedar, once very common, are almost totally gone.
	www.i-cias.com /e.o/atlasmou.htm (281 words)

	Atlas Mountains travel guide - Wikitravel
		Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
		The range can be divided into the High Atlas (or Grand Atlas) of Morocco, the Tell Atlas near the coast, and the southern Saharan Atlas of Algeria.
		It is said that the form of Islam practiced in the rest of the country never penetrated fully into the High Atlas, and all the attempts throughout history to invade the mountains have failed at least in part.
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	ALGERIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The country's principal river, the 725-km (450-mi) long Chelif, rises in the Tell Atlas and flows to the Mediterranean Sea; no permanent streams are found S of the Tell.
		South of the Hauts Plateaux region lie the mountains and massifs of the Saharan Atlas.
		Saharan flora is widely scattered and consists of drought-resistant grasses, acacia, and jujube trees.
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	BBC - Weather Centre - World Weather - Country Guides - Algeria
		The rest of the country, to the south of the Saharan Atlas mountains, is almost rainless and is part of the great Sahara desert.
		Rainfall is heaviest and most reliable along the Mediterranean coast and in the higher parts of the Tell Atlas where it varies from 400 mm/16 in to 800 mm/32 in per year.
		Immediately south of the Saharan Atlas there is a narrow belt of steppe country, similar to that in southern Tunisia.
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	French Colonies - Algeria
		Separating the Tell Atlas from the Saharan Atlas is a semiarid plateau with an average elevation of 1,100 m (3,610 ft).
		South of the Saharan Atlas is the immense Sahara, with its gravel expanses, occasional plateaus, sand dunes (ergs), and the fantastic, lunarlike Ahaggar Mountains, where Mount Tahat, the nation's highest peak, rises to 3,003 m (9,852 ft).
		In the ranges and plateaus of the Atlas Mountains, mean temperatures range from 4° C (39° F) to 28° C (82° F).
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	Atlas Mountains - Definition, explanation
		The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in northwest Africa extending about 2400 km (1500 miles) through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and including The Rock of Gibraltar.
		The population of the Atlas mountains are mainly Berber in Morocco and mainly Arab in Algeria.
		The mountains are divided into the Grand Atlas of Morroco, the lower Tell Atlas running near the coast and the larger Saharan Atlas running further south.
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	Historique
		The Saharan Atlas was formed from an elongated trough pinched between the High Plateaus and the Saharan Platform.
		The Saharan Platform is a large and stable area with a sedimentary history which dates from the early Paleozoic.
		The Ahnet-Timimoun Basin is bordered to the north and to the west by Oued Namous shoal and the Ougarta range while to the south and east the limits are the Touareg shield and the Foum-Belrem and Mzab dorsals.
	www.mem-algeria.org /hydrocarbons/geology.htm (1698 words)

	Algeria
		Two great mountain ranges, the Sahelian Atlas in the south and the Tell Atlas in the north, divide the country into three types of landscape which are distinct in their relief and morphology, giving rise to great biological diversity.
		The steppes, beyond the Tell Atlas, 9 percent of the country, are true grazing lands and their people, essentially agropastoralists, form 12 percent of the population.
		These are between the Tell Atlas to the north and the Saharan Atlas to the south, at altitudes between 900 and 1 200 m; they are dotted with saline depressions, chotts or sebkhas, which are continental lakes formed during the Pleistocene when there was torrential rainfall and heavy run-off.
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	ATLAS MOUNTAINS - Online Information article about ATLAS MOUNTAINS
		Middle Atlas), extending north - east and east from an undefined point to the north of the Great Atlas to near the frontier of Algeria, is crossed by the pass from See also:
		Lenz in 1879–188o surveyed a part of the Great Atlas north of Tarudant, determined a pass south of Iligh in the Anti-Atlas, and penetrated thence across the Sahara to Timbuktu.
		Harris, who explored some of the southern slopes and crossed the Atlas at two points during his expedition to Tafilalt in 1894.
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	Field Photos from Morocco
		The Middle Atlas mountains have a mean elevation of of 2000 meters in the southern and central region and 2500 meters in the north.
		This is a typical sequence of the Lower Jurassic (Lias) strata from the central Middle Atlas.
		Normal faults are frequently observed in the Tabular Middle Atlas (west of the fold belt) and appear to be related to extensional steps and bends in strike-slip faults.
	atlas.geo.cornell.edu /people/gomez/maroc/maroc_photos.html (684 words)

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		Deforestation has been extensive in northern Algeria, with forests receding to the upper Tell Atlas and the Saharan Atlas.
		Saharan plant life is sparse and typical of desert vegetation, including acacia, jujube and desert grasses.
		The desert wildlife, while limited, is richer in variety, including leopards and panthers, gazelles, hyenas, jackals and antelope, as well as desert reptiles such as snakes, vipers and monitor lizards.
	www.arab.net /algeria/aa_florafauna.htm (128 words)

	Atlas Mountains Information
		The Atlas Mountains (Arabic: جبال الأطلس‎) are a mountain range in northwest Africa extending about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and including The Rock of Gibraltar.
		The basement rock of Africa was formed in the Precambrian period (approximately 4.5 billion to approximately 550 million years ago) and is much older than the Atlas mountains lying in Africa.
		More recently in the Tertiary period (~65 millions to ~1.8 million years ago) the remaining mountain chains that today comprise the Atlas were uplifted as the land masses of Europe and Africa collided at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.
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	Great holidays found
		Cycling holiday in Morocco: Southern Morocco is a land of extreme contrasts - from the commanding kasbahs and lush oases of the Draa Valley, to the high peaks and hidden valleys of the Atlas Mountains or the sand dunes of Erfoud.
		Morocco budget holiday: From the snow-capped Atlas Mountains to the endless sands of the Sahara; from the medieval old town of Fes to the spice markets of Marrakesh - the rich history and traditions of this ancient land await.
		Morocco holiday, Jebel Sahro: Lying between the Atlas and the Sahara, the remote Jebel Sahro region benefits from the warmth of the desert in winter.
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	Algeria - Terrain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the higher and wetter portions of the Tell Atlas, cork oak and Aleppo pine grow in thick soils.
		In the mid-1970s, however, the government embarked on a vast reforestation program to help control erosion, which was estimated to affect 100,000 cubic meters of arable land annually.
		Among projects was one to create a barrage vert (green barrier) more or less following the ridge line of the Saharan Atlas and extending from Morocco to the Tunisian frontier in a zone 1,500 kilometers long and up to twenty kilometers wide.
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	Profile - Algeria
		The country’s principal river, the Chelif (725 km/ 450 mi long), rises in the Tell Atlas and flows to the Mediterranean Sea; no permanent streams are found south of the Tell.
		The next region, lying to the south and southwest, is the High Plateau, a highland region of level terrain.
		South of this lie the mountains and massifs of the Saharan Atlas.
	www.inadev.org /profile_-_algeria.htm (5383 words)

	Algeria - The High Plateaus and the Saharan Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stretching more than 600 kilometers eastward from the Moroccan border, the High Plateaus (often referred to by their French name Hauts Plateaux) consist of undulating, steppe-like plains lying between the Tell and Saharan Atlas ranges.
		Higher and more continuous than the Tell Atlas, the Sahara Atlas range is formed of three massifs: the Ksour near the Moroccan border, the Amour, and the Oulad Nail south of Algiers.
		Watercourses on the southern slopes of these massifs disappear into the desert but supply the wells of numerous oases along the northern edge of the desert, of which Biskra, Laghouat, and Béchar are the most prominent.
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