When they reach a flat plain, rivers often deposit their sediment load into a cone-shaped structure called alluvial fan. We present a simplified experimental setup that reproduces, in one dimension, basic features of alluvial fans. A mixture of water and glycerol transports and deposits glass beads between two transparent panels separated by a narrow gap. As the beads, which mimic natural sedim...

Alpine landscapes have evolved rapidly over the last two centuries. River embankments and urbanization have aff ected most of the large alluvial plains, agriculture has radically changed and its relative landscapes also. Forests are gaining space in most of the Alpine countries and tourism has modifi ed landscapes in several areas, both in alpine forelands and high valleys. In Switzerland, the ...

In the Mediterranean area, several alluvial coastal plains, developed after Holocene transgression, are affected by subsidence. The Volturno alluvial-coastal plain, along eastern Tyrrhenian Sea (southern Italy) is characterized subsidence rates determined through InSAR data analysis and ranging between 0 <?20 mm/year in an area of about 750 kmq across River. Inside this pattern shows sites w...

Mashhad Plain affects by a series of active faults in the northern margin of the Binalud and the southern margin of the Kopet-Dagh mountain ranges. The activity of these faults forms the morphology of the stepped bedrock of the Plain. In addition, the faults’ activities in the Quaternary period are the main effective parameters in thickness and texture of aquifer deposits in Mashhad Plain. In t...

Buried sedimentary aggradational sections deposited between 800 ka and 600 ka in the Tiber River coastal alluvial plain have been studied using borecores from around Rome. Ar/Ar ages on sanidine and/or leucite from intercalated tephra layers and paleomagnetic investigation of clay sections provide geochronologic constraints on the timing of aggradation of two alluvial sections, demonstrating th...

the alluvial fan of shahdaad in derakhtangaan river is one of the biggest alluvial fans in a dry area in northeastern kerman. this alluvial fan has been formed due to different material erosions in the drainage basin of derakhtangaan river and lying of these materials in the extreme part of this basin called dasht-e-lut (the plain of lut). the region which has been studied in this research is o...

The alluvial plain of Sarvestan bears the sole source of potable water in Sarvestan county, Fars Province, Iran. In recent years, due to extended heavy pumping, the groundwater storage has been reduced continuously. The UNGWM (United Nation Ground Water Model) is used to evaluate the hydraulic characteristics of the Sarvestan aquifer and its future response to various regimes of recharge and di...

In order to obtain a high-resolution Pleistocene stratigraphy, eleven continuously cored boreholes, 100 to 220m deep were drilled in the northern part of the Po Plain by Regione Lombardia in the last five years. Quantitative provenance analysis (QPA, Weltje and von Eynatten, 2004) of Pleistocene sands was carried out by using multivariate statistical analysis (principal component analysis, PCA,...

The alluvial plain of the Ceyhan River (SE Turkey) has been populated since the Neolithic. In 1954, Marjory Veronica Seton-Williams described for this area several archeological mounds (höyük), which are the remains of ancient settlements. Today, according to the archeological research carried out in the area, some of these mounds result to have been leveled by agricultural activities. In this ...