کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6432624 1635448 2013 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Fault - Dissolution front relations and the Dead Sea sinkhole problem
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات فرآیندهای سطح زمین
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Fault - Dissolution front relations and the Dead Sea sinkhole problem
چکیده انگلیسی


- In the Dead Sea shores salt formed along the active neotectonic faults.
- Sinkholes form in a strip of 60-100 m wide along a paleo-shoreline.
- Latter is constrained by faults and alluvial fans determining the salt layer edge.
- It reconciles “tectonic” and “salt edge” competing models of sinkhole formation.

There are two conflicting models of sinkhole development along the Dead Sea (DS). The first one considers structural control on sinkholes, constraining them to tectonic lineaments. This hypothesis is based on seismic reflection studies suggesting that sinkholes are the surface manifestations of active neotectonic faults that may serve as conduits for under-saturated groundwater, enabling its access across aquiclude layers. Another hypothesis, based on results of multidisciplinary geophysical studies, considers the salt edge dissolution front as the major site of sinkhole formation. This hypothesis associates sinkholes with karstification of the salt edge by deep and shallow undersaturated groundwater. Our recent seismic reflection and surface wave studies suggest that salt formed along the active neotectonic faults. Sinkholes form in a narrow strip (60-100 m wide) along a paleo-shoreline constrained by faults and alluvial fans which determined the edge of the salt layer. This scenario reconciles the two major competing frameworks for sinkhole formation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Geomorphology - Volume 201, 1 November 2013, Pages 35-44
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