Geomorphologic cartography in Tunisia

Abstract

Tunisia is just starting in the field of geomorphological cartography. The first geomorphological maps date from the publication in 1960 of Roger Coque1s thesis on presahariar. Tunisia. They are small scale map. Then, it was not until the years 1964-65 that some maps on the scales 1/50,000 and 1/10,000 of some sectors of the Miliane and Mejerda catchment basins were produced by the Pedological Department. These two series of maps do not have the same design perhaps because the sca1es adopted are not the same. A geomorphological map must not only give as precise an idea as possible of the relief of a region, but also indicate the nature of the component deposits with their characteristic features, as well as their relative positions, and finally, it must explain the process of their formation and their geographic distribution.