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Processing and Analysis of aeromagnetic data of North-Eastern Morocco
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1  Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Geo-resources and Renewable Energies, Fez, BP30050, Morocco.
2  Hassan First University of Settat, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Research team of Geology of the Mining and Energetics Resources, BP577, Morocco.

Abstract:

The North-Eastern of Morocco was widely known for its mining potential, so discovering new structural guidelines was indispensable to find out new mineralization. Indeed, applying airborne magnetic techniques proves its efficiency in underlining new tectonic accidents and highlighting magnetic sources mostly hidden by Quaternary sedimentary covers. A magnetic anomaly map was established to attain this goal, basing on powerful operators (reduction to the pole, upward continuation, and Euler deconvolution), made on airborne data surveys of the study area. The elaborated map shows: (1) zones of strong magnetizations related to the Tertiary and Quaternary volcanic lavas partly outcropping in the Oujda and Saka regions to the iron and manganese mineralization concentrated in the Triassic beds. (2) Zones of relatively low magnetic response came from basaltic cones filled in a small graben at Oujda region. (3) Zones of low magnetization corresponded to the Quaternary and Tertiary cover or the Triassic-Jurassic deposits. We have established a magnetic lineaments map that emphasized deep faults, two main trends have been identified: NE-SW with ENE-WSW and E-W, they are considered as a major’s accidents because their depth reach to 2 km, as much as they inherited from the Hercynian and Alpine tectonics.

Keywords: Aeromagnetic surveys, magnetic anomaly, structural mapping, interpreted lineament, hidden faults, North-Eastern Morocco.
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