Strike–slip faulting, topographic growth and block movements as deduced from drainage anomalies: The Yeşilırmak River basin, northern Turkey

Gürbüz, Esra; Kazancı, Nizamettin; Gürbüz, Alper

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.07.018

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“…They thus serve as important elements for tectonogeomorphological analysis (e.g., Burrato et al, 2003;Clark et al, 2004;Vannoli et al, 2004;Shahzad et al, 2009). In the last two decades, the automatic identification of drainage networks and drainage basins from DEMs has become increasingly popular through the use of various GIS software packages (García and Camarasa, 1999;Turcotte et al, 2000;Robl et al, 2008;Bahrami, 2013;Ariza-Villaverde et al, 2015;Gürbüz et al, 2015). Several studies highlighted the effect of DEM resolution on the accuracy of hydrologic modelling and associated drainage networks (Garbrecht and Martz, 1994;Zhang and Montgomery, 1994;Cotter et al, 2003;Chaubey et al, 2005;Hosseinzadeh, 2011;Sharma et al, 2011;Azizian and Shokoohi, 2014).…”

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Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan

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This study investigates the dominant orientations of morphological features and the relationship between these trends and the spatial orientation of tectonic structures in SW Jordan. Landsat 8 and hill-shaded images, constructed from 30 m-resolution ASTER-GDEM data, were used for automatically extracting and mapping geological lineaments. The ASTER-GDEM was further utilized to automatically identify and extract drainage network. Morphological features were analyzed by means of azimuth frequency and length density distributions. Tectonic controls on the land surface were evaluated using longitudinal profiles of many westerly flowing streams. The profiles were taken directly across the northerly trending faults within a strong topographic transition between the low-gradient uplands and the deeply incised mountain front on the east side of the Dead Sea Fault Zone. Streams of the area are widely divergent, and show numerous anomalies along their profiles when they transect faults and lineaments. Five types of drainage patterns were identified: dendritic, parallel, rectangular, trellis, and modified dendritic/trellis. Interpretation and analysis of the lineaments indicate the presence of four main lineament populations that trend ~E-W, ~N-S, NE-SW, and NW-SE. Azimuthal distribution analysis of both the measured structures and drainage channels shows similar trends, except for very few differences in the prevailing directions. The similarity in orientation of lineaments, drainage system, and subsurface structural trends highlights the degree of control exerted by underlying structure on the surface geomorphological features. Faults and lineaments serve as a preferential conduit for surface running waters. The extracted lineaments were divided into five populations based on the main age of host rocks outcropping in the study area to obtain information about the temporal evolution of the lineament trends through geologic time. A general consistency in lineament trends over the different lithological units was observed, most probably because repeated reactivation of tectonism along preexisting deep structural discontinuities which are apparently crustal weakness zones. The reactivation along such inherited discontinuities under the present-day stress field is the most probable explanation of the complicated pattern and style of present-day landscape features in SW Jordan.

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Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan

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“…The landform development is the common product of stratum lithology, geological structure and external forces. These three have different effects on the landform development in different areas (Cyr et al 2014;Gürbüz et al 2015). The landform development of the region near the valley has been controlled by the change of the hydrodynamic condition caused by tectonic activity (Pérez-Peña et al 2010), and this manifests as spatial variation of valley shape.…”

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“…Landform evolution of subcatchments is closely related to the different amounts of crustal uplifts (Lifton and Chase 1992;Gürbüz et al 2015;Sarp 2015;Partabian et al 2016), therefore, the spatial variation of subcatchments' landform evolution is characterized by periodic replacement. However, the landform evolution of catchment has not only been controlled by the overall tectonic framework, Figure 12.…”

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“…Hypsometric curves and integrals have long been used as effective indicators of landform evolution (Harlin 1978;Mayer 1990;Pérez-Peña et al 2010;Gürbüz et al 2015). a i means the area of catchment above the contour (i), hi means the elevation difference (h i ) between the contour (i) and based one.…”

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“…The theory and method of neotectonic research have been multi-disciplinary involving integration of data from the aspects of structural geology, geomorphology, stratigraphy and geodesy. The drainage pattern in tectonically active regions is very sensitive to crustal movement such as folding and faulting (Gürbüz et al 2015). The crust deformation can change the way and the strength of water-flow movement, which makes the development and evolution of landform have obvious spatial variability.…”

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The development and evolution of landform based on neotectonic movement: The Sancha river catchment in the southwestern China

Lingmin

Yang

et al. 2018

J Earth Syst Sci

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Neotectonics has changed the coupled process of endogenic and exogenic geological dynamics, which mold the modern landform. Geomorphologic analysis is essential for identifying and understanding the tectonic activity and indicates the responsive mechanism of the landform to tectonic activity. At first, this research reconstructed the twisted Shanpen period planation surface, computed the valley floor width-to-height ratio of Sancha river and extracted the cross sections marking the river terraces to analyze the characteristics of the neotectonics. And then, the relation between neotectonic movement and landform development was analyzed by dividing the landform types. At last, the spatial variation of landform evolution was analyzed by extracting the Hypsometric Integral of sub-catchments. The Sancha river catchment's neotectonic movement presents the tilt-lift of earth's crust from NW to SE, which is characterized by the posthumous activity of Yanshan tectonic deformation. The spatial distribution of river terraces indicates that Sancha river catchment has experienced at least four intermittent uplifts and the fault blocks at both the sides of Liuzhi-Zhijin basement fault have differentially uplifted since the late Pleistocene. As the resurgence of Liuzhi-Zhijin basement fault, the Sancha river catchment was broken into two relative independent landform units. The spatial variations of the landform types near the Sancha river and the sub-catchments' landform evolution are characterized by periodic replacement. The styles of geological structure have controlled the development of landform far away from the Sancha River and influenced the landform evolution. The posthumous activities of the secondary structure have resulted in the spatial variation of sub-catchments' landform evolution, which presents periodic replacement with local exceptions. The present study suggests that spatial variations of the development and evolution of modern landform of Sancha River catchment owe their genesis to the interplay between the hydrodynamic force and tectonic activity in the neotectonic period. Likewise, the application of geomorphic indicators also provides a new way to assess the regional crustal stability.

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The Tectonic Control on the Geomorphological Landscapes of Turkey

Kuzucuoğlu¹,

Şengör

Çiner

2019

World Geomorphological Landscapes

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Strike–slip faulting, topographic growth and block movements as deduced from drainage anomalies: The Yeşilırmak River basin, northern Turkey

Cited by 18 publications

References 81 publications

Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan

Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan

The development and evolution of landform based on neotectonic movement: The Sancha river catchment in the southwestern China

The Tectonic Control on the Geomorphological Landscapes of Turkey

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