Located at the Tunisian Atlas area, the Quaternary basin of Borj Edouane-El Gara could serve as a good example for close relation between the continental infill and the neotectonic morphostructural pattern. This Quaternary basin is superimposed on pre-Quaternary basement rocks in the form of an active negative flower structure in a divergent wrench fault zone. The neotectonic evolution of the region has been guided by the plate convergence system. During the Middle-Late Pleistocene, subsidence took locally place in a transtensional deformation zone essentially controlled by strike-slip faults. Closely linked to N–S synthetic and NW-SE antithetic faults, the internal structure of this basin is controlled by a rotational scissor-like kinematics. These faults sets represent inherited structures with normal and lateral components producing a downward rotation of the northern part and an upward rotation of the southern one of the basin. Paleostress analysis shows a progressive change from transtensional in the North to transpressional and compressional deformation toward the Southern corner of the basin where the main synthetic and antithetic faults overlap. During the Holocene, the reactivation of the inherited faulting system has caused the landscape rejuvenation, the basin chopping and the present drainage network architecture. The rates of active tectonics in the Borj Edouane-El Gara Basin has been interpreted through a detailed morphotectonic study of the fault-generated mountain fronts and fluvial systems.

Borj Edouane-El Gara第四系盆地位于突尼斯阿特拉斯地区，可以作为大陆填充物与新构造地貌构造模式之间密切联系的一个很好的例子。该第四纪盆地以发散的扳手断裂带中的活动负花结构形式叠加在前第四纪基底岩石上。该地区的新构造演化受到板块辐合系统的指导。在中-晚更新世期间，沉降发生在一个基本上由走滑断层控制的拉伸变形带中。该盆地的内部结构与 N-S 合成断层和 NW-SE 对映断层密切相关，受旋转剪刀式运动学控制。这些断层组代表具有正常和横向分量的继承结构，产生盆地北部的向下旋转和南部的向上旋转。古应力分析表明，从北部的张拉变形到盆地南角的挤压和挤压变形，主要合成断层和对断断层重叠。在全新世，继承的断层系统的重新激活导致景观更新、盆地切割和目前的排水网络结构。Borj Edouane-El Gara 盆地的活动构造速率已通过对断层产生的山前和河流系统的详细形态构造研究来解释。