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Morocco has
the Middle Atlas, High Atlas and Anti Atlas.
The High Atlas is the highest, with Toubkal
Mountain stretching to 4,165 metres. Anti
Atlas does not reach higher than 2531 metres
at the most, but still has some of the most
rugged landscape. The Middle Atlas reaches
3,350 metres.
Geologically,
the Atlas was formed in two phases. The
western part was formed first, while the
eastern part was formed later, and at the
same time as the Alps of Europe.
The Atlas
mountains contain many fertile valleys,
since the high peaks force the clouds to
give away large quantities of rainfall.
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. But there are atill many
unexploited resources of the mountains. and
there are mineral deposits of gold, silver,
lead, zinc, iron, manganese, antimony,
phosphates and petroleum.
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