Authors: Robert van Vleck Anderson
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The present study deals with the geology of an area some 115 miles long and averaging about 33 miles wide along the Mediterranean coast in the Coastal Atlas of western Algeria. The strata are chiefly of marine sedimentary origin and range in age from late Paleozoic or early Mesozoic to Recent. Whereas numerous features of the general geology and geography are dealt with, the special emphasis concerns a discussion of the Cenozoic stratigraphic sequence and structural history, with particular reference to the Miocene and Pliocene periods, and the presentation of a geological map on the scale of 1/200,000. The map shows in detail the distribution of the formations representing the latter periods…
Published: 6/01/1936
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