Safaroud Basin Aquifer Landslides Geomorphology-Ramsar Zone

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

mohamadreza servati ¹ , seyed yousef hashemi ²

1 - دانشیار گروه جغرافیا، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی
2 - فارغ التحصیل رشته جغرافیای طبیعی (ژئومورفولوژی) گروه جغرافیا دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات

Received: 2007-04-08 Accepted : 2007-09-16 Published : 2007-08-23

Keywords: Erosion, Arc GIS, Basing, Land slide, Parting the Land,

Abstract :

Safarud River is placed as farasits source that is javaherdeh high altitude still its maximum limit which is Khazar Sea and its direction is north east to south west. The long distance between its source and cancause different changes and a lot of transformation along side. One of the obvious agents and important Geomorphological phenomena in the area of the Safaroud river is land sliding that its occurrence causes the obstruction of roads. Destruction of agriculture gardens, plant coverage, erosion of lands, damage of residential areas and killing the human beings, too.Studying the Geomorphology of landslides and the factors contributing to their occurrence as well as determining of danger points and to give methods of controlling them are deemed to be important since the considered are a is one of the most important regions for the water supply and also the biggest of tourist center and that it can be used for planning purposes.Arc Gis software has been used for parting the land of dangers of landslide as well as for preparing the maps.It is known about 33 landslide in this basin which some factors like Geology, plant covering, soil, climate, Hydrology, Geomorphology and human activities in the landslide affection it.