The Edough massif is the easternmost crystalline massif of the Maghrebides which represent the southeastern part of the West Mediterranean orogen.It occurs below the greenschist-facies Tellian units that represent the thrusted Mesozoic to Eocene passive paleomargin of northern Africa deposited on thinned continental crust.The upper unit of the Edough massif is characterized by metasedimentary rocks affected by