desertification is one of the major issues threatening human communities. manymethods have been developed for assessment and mapping of desertification hazards. in thisresearch, multi-criteria evaluation method was used to investigate desertification process introuti watershed, golestan province, iran. at the first step, major desertification factors weredetermined by doing field surveys. they ...

background and objectives : zeolite is a group of anionic hydrated aluminosilicates with a tridimensional structure which has great implications in remediation of water, sediment and soil resources. the present research aims at physicochemical investigation, clay mineralogy and micromorphology of soils along rafsanjan-sarcheshmeh lithotoposequence, southeastern iran. materials and methods: the ...

to investigate pedological criterion on land degradation in quaternary rock units, at first, a part of the shoor watershed area was selected. after distinguishing target area, slope classes, land use and geology maps were created, then map of units were founded by overlaying and crossing these maps. in this research three indices of erodibility, salinity and permeability of soils were considere...

1. Geological Time: A Summary 2. Reconstruction and Relative Dating of Earth History 2.1. Early Ideas and Basic Principles 2.2. Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism 2.3. Geological Catastrophes and Events: Particular Historical Geological Phenomena 2.4. Rates of Geological Processes in Terms of Human Timescales 2.4.1. Earth Crust Movements 2.4.2. Plutonic and Volcanic Processes 2.4.3. Weathering...

The paper deals with the suitability of using the morphostructural analysis of the digital relief model (DRM) for compiling a geological map fault network focused on brittle failure of the rock mass. Attention is paid to the description of the procedure of interpreting the individual outputs of the morphometric methods selected. An important role in compiling the resulting network of the rock m...

[1] We have applied ambient noise surface wave tomography to data that have emerged continuously from the EarthScope USArray Transportable Array (TA) between October 2004 and January 2007. Estimated Green’s functions result by cross-correlating noise records between every station-pair in the network. The 340 stations yield a total of more than 55,000 interstation paths. Within the 5to 50-s peri...