There is a need to automate terrain feature mapping so that to make the process more objective and less time consuming by using proper feature extraction techniques. The objective of this study was the use of object-oriented image analysis methods for the automatic extraction of alluvial fan terrain units. The study area was located in the Death Valley, Nevada, USA. The data used included an AS...

Alluvial aquifers in mountainous regions cover typically a limited area. Their contribution to catchment storage and outflow is rarely isolated; alluvial groundwater discharge under gauging stations is generally assumed negligible; and hydrological models tend to lump alluvial storage with other units. The role of alluvial aquifers remains therefore unclear: can they contribute significantly to...

A diverse flora has been discovered in a dark clay lens in upland gravel in southern Maryland near Brandywine. More than 49 taxa have been identified in the assemblage, which includes leaves, seeds, fruits, pollen, and a Taxodium (bald cypress) trunk. The vegetation is dominated by deciduous trees and vines. Four taxa are now absent from North America but survive elsewhere; one is extinct. A la...

The present study focused on the relationships between subsidence and geological geotechnical features of Volturno River alluvial coastal plain (northern Campania, Italy). Subsidence rates were determined through InSAR data analysis. A lithostratigraphic reconstruction was provided for Holocene succession that overlay a continuous, thick, volcaniclastic unit (Campania Grey Tuff) deposited 39 ka...

Introduction The Potomac Formation is a heterogeneous assemblage of ancient river deposits consisting chiefly of unconsolidated and poorly consolidated sands, silts, clays, and small amounts of gravel, along with localized zones of diamictons of uncertain origin. It is the dominant geologic unit in the City of Alexandria. It crops out or is close to the surface everywhere west of Old Town and D...

The placoderm fauna of the upper Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud, Belgium, includes the antiarch Grossilepis rikiki, the arthrodire groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis strudensis and the phyllolepidid Phyllolepis undulata. Based on morphological and morphometric evidence, the placoderm specimens from Strud are predominantly recognised as immature specimens and this locality as representin...

Alluvial slopes are piedmonts characterized by parallel steam channels rather than alluvial fans. They are common landforms in extensional basins of the south-western United States but have received little attention from geomorphologists or sedimentologists. Persistence of channellized flow across piedmonts, as opposed to sheetflooding due to loss of flow confinement on alluvialfan surfaces, di...