PAGES Morocco

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Morocco is the easternmost country in the Mediterranean basin, extending from 28°N to 36°N latitude and from 2°W to 12°W longitude. Morocco is located in the very northwest of Africa. It is bordered in the north by the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea, to the south by Mauritania, to the east by Algeria, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Climatically, the country lies between the Mediterranean climatic belt and the Saharan subtropical desert, with high mountains ranges introducing an altitudinal climatic gradient that overlies the latitudinal gradient. Recent palaeoclimatic reconstructions in Morocco are based on studies of the regional prehistory, of dunes and palaeodunes, of palaeosoils and other quaternary deposits, and of the marine sediments cored along the Moroccan coasts.