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Acknowledgements: 
We greatly appreciated Reminex Exploration for providing 
technical support while doing fieldwork and for providing the 
Quickbird image. Also, we would like to thank Professor E. 
Aarab from the Cadi-Ayyad University in Marrakech and A. El 
Harti from the Faculty of Science and Techniques in Beni- 
Mellal for their help and advice. This research would not have 
been possible without the support from the Natural Sciences 
and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 
and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the 
University of Ottawa. 
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