La mission archéologique franco-marocaine de Kouass au Maroc

New sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of tsunami flooding related to an older events along the Tangier-Asilah coastal plain, Morocco

“…Since the post LGM, a marine transgression and fluvial sediment filled-up the lower valleys; the model is a transgressive barrier island with two estuaries (Reinson 1992). During prehistoric times (Otte and Abdellaoui 2004;Bridoux et al 2011), the regularization of the coast was not yet realized and pre-Roman and Roman population to install settlements and commercial harbor (Had Gharbia, the Roman "Zilil Lulia Constantia") in this bay landscape. In the Scylax journey, VI°century BC (Müller 1855), a bay named "Kôtes" is described between two cities Tangier and Lixus, Phoenician and Roman settlement, North of Asilah (Ruiz and Dietler 2009).…”