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A ground instabilities inventory between Tetouan and Jebha (Morocco): mapping, description and analysis

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Ground instabilities inventories, regrouping the different existing instability typologies, are of primary importance for their comprehension and anticipation of further instabilities. Several methods can be used to prepare such an inventory, depending on the objective, the size of the study area, the availability of data, etc. To make an inventory of ground instabilities in the north-western Rif of Morocco, we chose to use only free software and free available data. We were thus able to provide one global inventory map presenting the different instabilities shown with colored dots and four smaller area inventory maps presenting the instabilities with surface features. An analysis of the maps highlights parameters that could be responsible for ground instabilities. The multi-methodological approaches we used for the realization of inventories give high-quality results and stresses the importance of risk assessment in the study area.

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    Haytam Tribak & Muriel Gasc-Barbier

  2. Functional Ecology and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, 2202, Fez, B.P, Morocco

    Haytam Tribak & Abdelkader El Garouani

  3. Côte d’Azur University, 06560, Valbonne, France

    Haytam Tribak

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Tribak, H., Gasc-Barbier, M. & Garouani, A.E. A ground instabilities inventory between Tetouan and Jebha (Morocco): mapping, description and analysis. Bull Eng Geol Environ 82, 143 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-023-03161-z

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