Tislit Lake

Lake Tislit
Lake Tislit
	Lake Tislit
	Interactive map of Lake Tislit
Location	Haut Atlas Oriental National Park, Morocco
Coordinates	32°11′42″N 5°38′15″W / 32.19500°N 5.63750°W
Lake type	Meromictic lake
Basin countries	Morocco
Surface area	1.3 km2 (0.50 sq mi)
Average depth	16 m (52 ft)
Surface elevation	2,119 m (6,952 ft)
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Lacs Isly-Tislite
Designated	15 January 2005
Reference no.	1480

Lake Tislit is a lake located in Morocco's Haut Atlas Oriental National Park, in the commune of Imilchil. This is an "agdal" (which means "proprietary grazing field" in the Berber language) where the tribes of Ayt Ḥdiddu lead their flocks during the summer. The lake has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2005.

Every year in September, a significant festival is held at the lake.

Lakes Isli and Tislit are named after epoymous characters from a Moroccan popular legend. A study suggested that both lakes were impact craters, given the presence of iron fragment and other materials around the lakes belonging to the same parent meteorite.

References

1 2 Chaabout, S.; Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H.; Reimold, W. U.; Aboulahris, M.; Aoudjehane, M. (August 2013). "Evidence of Non-Impact Cratering Origin of Imilchil (Morocco) Lakes (Isli and Tislit)" (PDF). Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V, Proceedings of the conference. Sudbury, Ontario: Geological Society of America. p. 3074.
1 2 "Lacs Isly-Tislite". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
↑ Kraus, Wolfgang (1991). Die Ayt Ḥdiddu: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im zentralen Hohen Atlas: ein Beitrag zur Diskussion segmentärer Systeme in Marokko. Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-1877-0.
↑ Ibhi, Abderrahmane; Nachit, Hassane; Abia, El Hassan; AIT Touchnt, Ahmed (2013). "Isli and Tislit: The First Dual Impact Crater Discovered in Morocco". International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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[paper-1] 1 2 Chaabout, S.; Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H.; Reimold, W. U.; Aboulahris, M.; Aoudjehane, M. (August 2013). "Evidence of Non-Impact Cratering Origin of Imilchil (Morocco) Lakes (Isli and Tislit)" (PDF). Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V, Proceedings of the conference. Sudbury, Ontario: Geological Society of America. p. 3074.

[RSIS-2] 1 2 "Lacs Isly-Tislite". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

[3] Kraus, Wolfgang (1991). Die Ayt Ḥdiddu: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im zentralen Hohen Atlas: ein Beitrag zur Diskussion segmentärer Systeme in Marokko. Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-1877-0.

[4] Ibhi, Abderrahmane; Nachit, Hassane; Abia, El Hassan; AIT Touchnt, Ahmed (2013). "Isli and Tislit: The First Dual Impact Crater Discovered in Morocco". International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics.