Mapping Late Holocene Landscape Evolution and Human Impact – A Case Study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran)

Walstra, J.; Heyvaert, Vanessa; Verkinderen, Peter

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-53446-0.00022-7

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“…Change activity (sediment accretion, work-over rate by channel erosion, cutoff infilling, flood channel changes) Tooth, 2000;Maddy et al, 2001;Jones et al, 2010;Howard, 1996;Lane, 2006. ( Macklin et al, in review). In low angle fans, such as those described by Walstra et al (2011) in southwest Iran, human intervention is a very important factor in their development through the use of levee breaks as locations for inlets to irrigate canals and the transformation of crevasse splays into rapidly prograding irrigation lobes. (b) Mobile rivers with braided or actively meandering channels may produce laterally shifting rivers and tabular floodplains with relief provided by cutoffs, and accretionary ridges and swales.…”

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The rivers of civilization

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Lewin

2015

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Section: Selected Studiesmentioning

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The rivers of civilization

Macklin

Lewin

2015

Quaternary Science Reviews

174

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“…The spatial arrangement of tones and textures which make up the image scene results in the pattern, and is mainly related to geomorphology, topography, vegetation, and human imprint. The image characteristics change depending on the time of image acquisition, due to changes in lighting conditions, vegetation cover and soil moisture content [39].…”

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Detection of Annual Coastal Boulder Mobility From 2017–2021 Remote Sensing Imagery (Gulf of Taranto, Mediterranean Sea) and Relation With Marine Weather Conditions

Delle Rose

2023

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Landward displacement of coastal boulders is a morphodynamic signature of inundation and erosion processes. The study of these movements can provide useful elements for coastal hazards assessment. In this note, using open-access remote sensing resources, the 2017 to 2021 annual mobility of medium, coarse, and very coarse boulders spread over about 100 km of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Taranto (Italy) is detected. A large interannual variability was found. As established by multi-temporal object-based image analysis, one hundred and ten boulders changed position between July 2019 and June 2020, no boulder was displaced between July 2017 and July 2018, and few boulders were displaced between July 2018 and July 2019, and June 2020 and September 2021. A hydrodynamic analysis of the investigated boulder displacement led to the estimation of the energy of nearshore waves that hit the coast. The storm Detlef, that crossed over the Mediterranean Sea during 11-13 November 2019, is presumed to be the main cause of the massive displacement phenomenon.

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“…A standardized working procedure was developed for the consistent mapping of the alluvial landscapes of Lower Khuzestan [34]. Because these landscapes have been subject to prolonged human activity, this was explicitly considered as an important agent in the mapping legend.…”

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Assessing human impact on alluvial fan development: a multidisciplinary case-study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran)

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This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach for studying the evolution of an alluvial fan system in Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran). The study draws on previously collected data from geological and archaeological field campaigns and new data derived from the interpretation of satellite imagery and historical textual sources. Three alluvial fans were identified, successively deposited by the Jarrahi river in progressively downstream/westward direction. Judging from archaeological and historical evidence, the successive phases appear to coincide with a relocation of settlement and irrigation activities. The distributary system of the present-day fan developed over a period of less than four centuries. It is suggested that management of levee breaks by man played a key role in such rapid fan development and in maintaining extremely low gradients. Judging from the extensive patterns of ancient irrigation canals, human activity also played an important role in the formation of the earlier fans.

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Mapping Late Holocene Landscape Evolution and Human Impact – A Case Study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran)

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

The rivers of civilization

The rivers of civilization

Detection of Annual Coastal Boulder Mobility From 2017–2021 Remote Sensing Imagery (Gulf of Taranto, Mediterranean Sea) and Relation With Marine Weather Conditions

Assessing human impact on alluvial fan development: a multidisciplinary case-study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran)

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