Geodiversity of Kingdom of Morocco: Tata Province geomorphosites inventory for creating a geopark project (Anti-Atlas)

Abstract

The geodiversity of the Kingdom of Morocco being very varied and known, remains entirely unexplored despite the efforts made by specialists to encourage its recognition. The famous sites represent only a tiny part of its true geological heritage, compared to its long geological and geomorphological history. We present different aspects of the geodiversity of Morocco kingdom, recalling the previous works in this direction and then, we focus on Tata Province, western part of the Anti Atlas, in through largely unknown examples. A preliminary and quantitative inventory of geomorphosites is presented to identify 46 sites. They are tectonic, fluvial, climatic etc. Such a heritage encourages the local government to take the initiative of creating a geopark project on this territory called Tata Geopark, in order to achieve the sustainable development goals.