GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt
In this paper, we apply an effective method to evaluate relative tectonic activity by applying several morph-tectonic indices that are useful in evaluating topography and tectonics. These indices include stream length-gradient, asymmetric factor, hypsometric index, hypsometric curves, valley floor w...
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| description | In this paper, we apply an effective method to evaluate relative tectonic activity by applying several morph-tectonic indices that are useful in evaluating topography and tectonics. These indices include stream length-gradient, asymmetric factor, hypsometric index, hypsometric curves, valley floor width to valley height ratio, drainage basin shape, and mountain front sinuosity. The study region of Wadi Al-Arish in northern Sinai Peninsula in northern Egypt is a natural laboratory to examine relative tectonic activity levels for calculating morpho-tectonic indices of several catchments and sub-catchments rather than an individual catchment. Northern Sinai, comprising the Waid Al-Arish area, is characterized by several large inversion anticline folds. The cumulative results extracted from morpho-tectonic indices ae presented as a new index, namely relative tectonic activity level (RTAL), which we classified into four levels: low, moderate, high, and very high relative tectonic activity. Therefore, the study region provides different levels of relative tectonic activity resulting from fault patterns affecting the northern Sinai inversion forms. The paper examines the concept that regions with various levels of tectonic activity are associated with specific values of RTAL. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-015ee105b9ea4f7c8d1cc08a97a88e272023-11-16T18:58:55ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-02-01134265910.3390/app13042659GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, EgyptBashar Bashir0Abdullah Alsalman1Hussein Bachir2Mahmoud Elnobi3Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Civil, Geo, and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, GermanyDepartment of Geology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11651, EgyptIn this paper, we apply an effective method to evaluate relative tectonic activity by applying several morph-tectonic indices that are useful in evaluating topography and tectonics. These indices include stream length-gradient, asymmetric factor, hypsometric index, hypsometric curves, valley floor width to valley height ratio, drainage basin shape, and mountain front sinuosity. The study region of Wadi Al-Arish in northern Sinai Peninsula in northern Egypt is a natural laboratory to examine relative tectonic activity levels for calculating morpho-tectonic indices of several catchments and sub-catchments rather than an individual catchment. Northern Sinai, comprising the Waid Al-Arish area, is characterized by several large inversion anticline folds. The cumulative results extracted from morpho-tectonic indices ae presented as a new index, namely relative tectonic activity level (RTAL), which we classified into four levels: low, moderate, high, and very high relative tectonic activity. Therefore, the study region provides different levels of relative tectonic activity resulting from fault patterns affecting the northern Sinai inversion forms. The paper examines the concept that regions with various levels of tectonic activity are associated with specific values of RTAL.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2659active tectonicsmorphometric indicesrelative tectonic activity levelnorthern SinaiEgypt |
| spellingShingle | Bashar Bashir Abdullah Alsalman Hussein Bachir Mahmoud Elnobi GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt Applied Sciences active tectonics morphometric indices relative tectonic activity level northern Sinai Egypt |
| title | GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt |
| title_full | GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt |
| title_fullStr | GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt |
| title_short | GIS-Analysis for Active Tectonics Assessment of Wadi Al-Arish, Egypt |
| title_sort | gis analysis for active tectonics assessment of wadi al arish egypt |
| topic | active tectonics morphometric indices relative tectonic activity level northern Sinai Egypt |
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