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The first tectonic deformation phase involves only the Anti-Atlas, which was formed in the Paleozoic Era (~300 million years ago) as the result of continental collisions. North America, Europe and Africa were connected millions of years ago. The tectonic boundary. The Anti-Atlas Mountains are believed to have originally been formed as part of ...
The High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas, is a mountain range in central Morocco, North Africa, the highest part of the Atlas Mountains. The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan- Algerian border.
Africae Tabula Nova ("New Map of Africa") is a map of Africa published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570. It was engraved by Frans Hogenberg and included in Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ("Theater of the World"), commonly regarded as the first modern atlas. The atlas was printed widely in seven languages and 31 total editions between ...
Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Map of the Land of Eendracht"), which was not widely distributed or recognised.
More recently, in the Cenozoic Era from 66 million to about 1.8 million years ago, the mountain chains that today compose the Atlas Mountains were lifted up as the European and African plates collided at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. Erosion has reduced the Little Atlas range so that it is today lower than the High Atlas range to ...
The Saharan Atlas (Arabic: الأطلس الصحراوي) is a range of the Atlas Mountain System. It is located mainly in Algeria , with its eastern end in Tunisia . Although not as tall as the High Atlas of Morocco its summits are more imposing than the Tell Atlas range that runs parallel closer to the coast.
Later, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa and was said to be the first King of Mauretania (modern-day Morocco and west Algeria, not to be confused with the modern-day country of Mauritania). [2] Atlas was said to have been skilled in philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy.
Jamish Brown, Climbing in the Atlas Mountains, The Alpine Journal, 2002, pp. 81–91. Des Clark, Mountaineering in the Moroccan High Atlas, Cicerone, 2011; Bernhard Lindahl, Local History of Ethiopia, 2005/2008 (for verification of names) Lists and/or maps covering all peaks in the world with 1500 m+ prominence at Peaklist.org