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Relationship between soil erosion, slope, parent material, and distance to road (Case study: Latian Watershed, Iran)

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Soil erosion is the dominating factor of damaging roads in Iran. Roads are a critical component of civilization. Developing and maintaining the economic activity that is vital for the quality of modern life would be difficult without roads. Accelerated erosion and increased sediment yields resulting from changes in land use are critical environmental problems, and one of the important changes is road construction. Construction and condition of roadways are associated with direct and indirect impacts on soil erosion. This paper presents the relationship between soil erosion and some characteristics such as distance to roadway, slope, and parent material in Latian Watershed, Tehran Province, Iran. Soil erosion map was interpreted using aerial photos and GIS technology. Buffer zones, subdivided into 12 strips, each 0.2 km wide, which were located alongside roadway. The distribution patterns of various types of erosion were also identified by GIS by overlaying road buffer strips and soil erosion map. The results show that soil erosion landform such as land slide, badland, bank erosion, channel erosion, etc. found in buffer zones along both sides of roads.

الملخص

الإنجراف الهوايي و المائي للتربة هما من اهم اسباب تخريب الطرق في ايران. من جهة اخري الطرق هي من اهم علائم الحضارة. بدون طرق التقدم و تنمية النشاطات الإ قتصادية يكون امر مشكل. التعرية المتزايدة و تشديد الرمال الزاحفة بسبب سوء استخدام الأ راضي هي من اهم تغييرات احداث الطرق.

هذه المقالة درست العلاقة بين تعرية التربة و بعض المواصفات مثل بعد المسافة عن الطريق ، ميزان الإنحدار في مساقط مياه و حوض سد لتيان.

اعدت خارطة تعرية التربة بالإ ستفادة من الصور الجوية و تقنية GIS. علي بعد 2/. كيلومتر من جانبين الطرق 12منطقة احدثت. تحضير خارطة توزيع نماذج مختلفة للتعرية علي جانبين الطريق.

النتائج تدل علي إن هناك انواع مختلفة للتعرية المائية علي جانبين الطريق كزحف التربة و...

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  1. International Desert Research Center, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14185/354, No 37. Ghods St., Tehran, Iran

    Shirin Mohammadkhan

  2. Department of Arid and Mountainous Regions Reclamation, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 31585-4314, Chamran Av, Karaj, Iran

    Hasan Ahmadi & Mohammad Jafari

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Mohammadkhan, S., Ahmadi, H. & Jafari, M. Relationship between soil erosion, slope, parent material, and distance to road (Case study: Latian Watershed, Iran). Arab J Geosci 4, 331–338 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-010-0197-z

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