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The margin of northwestern Africa is outlined by the rugged topography of the Atlas Mountains. Inland from the coastal nation Morocco, the southwest-northeast ridges of the Atlas became more widely spaced. Along the border with Algeria (the area shown here), wide basins interrupt the ridges; these basins are repositories of sediments that have accumulated over millions of years into rock layers that are thousands of meters deep.
Image by Robert Simmon based on data from the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Published August 10, 2007 Data acquired October 25, 2005