Morphometric analysis and hydrogeomorphology for delineating groundwater potential zones of western doon valley, uttarakhand, india a. In this present work soi toposheets 47g16, 47h and 47l1 on the scale of 1. Research highlights morphometric parameters of 3d networks of karst conduits have several important applications. Morphometric analysis of a watershed is defined as. Quantitative morphometric analysis of a watershed of yamuna. To investigate the prospect of groundwater, hydrogeomorphological features of river basin viz. Morphometric analysis of the banas river basin using the. Volume 2, issues 12 pages 150 1 september 2011 download full issue. A range of morphometric indexes and morphometric functions are defined, described and illustrated. Methods of cartographical analysis in geomorphological research. Pdf basin geomorphology and drainage morphometry parameters. The biggest disadvantage of landmarkbased geometric morphometrics methods is that a number of landmarks ailablev can sometimes be insu cient to capture the shape of an object.
Morphometric measurements of bedrock rivers at different. Morphometric analysis of subwatershed in parts of western ghats. It describes the basin geometry quantitatively and analyse the geology, geomorphology, slope, rock hardness and other structural controls of drainage basin strahler, 1964. The morphometric analysis has been performed and different parameters have been correlated with each other to understand their underlying connection and their role over the basin hydro geomorphology. Much geomorphologic research has been devoted to the origin of landforms. A morphometric analysis of the threedimensional geometry of conduits provides quantitative measures that can be used in a range of applications. Basin geomorphology and drainage morphometry parameters. Morphometric analysis is of vital concern to understand hydromophological processes in a given watershed, and thus, it is a priority for assessing water resources in drainage basins. The present assessment for morphometric analysis of the madurai drainage basin was undertaken to understand the hydrogeological behavior of the drainage basin and to know more about the prevailing climate, geology, geomorphology and structure in the cauvery sub water shed region of.
Introduction in geomorphology, morphometry is a quantification of morphology. The tectonic analysis using geomorphic indices and morphometric parameters will help in determining the hazardprone area of the river basin. It describes the basin geometry quantitatively and analyse the geology, geomorphology, slope, rock hardness and other structural controls of. Formulas for right circular cones have been fitted to the configurations of alluvial fans, logarithmic spirals have been used to describe certain shapes of beaches, and drumlins, spoon. It is a modern, analyticalcartographic approach to representing bareearth topography by the computer manipulation of terrain height tobler, 1976, 2000. The study discloses different types of morphometric analysis and how they influence the soil and topography of the basin. The significance of morphometric analysis to understand the.
Geomorphology is the science of origin and evolution of topographic features or. Geospatial approach for quantitative drainage morphometric. Linear aspect is further divided into stream order n u, stream length l u. Morphometric analysis of threedimensional networks of karst conduits. Jayashree, 20 have conducted morphometric analysis of tungabhadra drainage basin based on secondary source i. Geomorphology and morphometric analysis used as a significant. Morphometry and terrain analyses are important in geomorphology where quantitative measurements are made on physical characteristics of landforms. Drainage basin morphometric analysis of galagu valley ahmed suleiman mustafa1. For unguaged watersheds wherein, in addition to hydrology, information regarding soil, geology, geomorphology, and so forth is also scarce, morphometric analysis provides a very good alternative to understand the underlying factors controlling the hydrological behaviour.
From morphometric measurements it is possible to obtain the mean dimensions of specific features and to obtain a. Geomorphological heritage is a very distinctive topic that is receiving considerable interest in the last few years among geoscientists involved in geoheritage studies coratza and hoblea 2018. This approach has recently been termed as morphometry. Delineated fifth order subbasins for morphometric analysis the morphometric parameters for each basin were directly computed from the vector data extracted from the topographic maps basic parameters. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here. Bedrock rivers account for one of the most outstanding aspects within geomorphological heritage due to the amount of distinctive and attractive geomorphological features associated. Tchakerian this study qualitatively and quantitatively analyzes the geomorphology of. The geomorphology and morphometric characteristics of alluvial fans, guadalupe mountains national park and adjacent areas, west texas and new mexico. Quantitative morphometric analysis of a watershed of. Watershed management process implies appropriate use of land and water.
Morphometric studies are first attempted by horton, strahler, smith, schumm, and miller 15. Airborne laser bathymetric alb systems rapidly acquire large, highquality datasets via variable swath widths that are independent of water depth. Jasrotia, ajay kumar and mohd aasim international journal of geomatics and geosciences volume 2 issue 4, 2012 1081 and relief aspect. Morphometric analysis, geomorphology, dem, banas river basin to cite this article swatantra kumar dubey, devesh sharma, nitika mundetia, morphometric analysis of the banas river basin using the geographical information system, rajasthan, india, hydrology. Morphometric analysis of a drainage basin is a quantitative description of a basin and an important aspect to know the character of the basin 1. A morphometric analysis of the geomorphology of floridas springs. Indices of watershed morphometry can interpret the shape and hydrological characteristics of a river basin 1. Morphometric analysis is the mathematical analysis of the earths surface configuration including its shape, size, landforms dimension etc clarke, 1996. Geomorphology is literally the study of the form or shape of the earth, but it deals principally with the topographical a brief treatment of geomorphology follows.
The basic concept to study morphometric analysis of river. Articles in press latest issue article collections all issues submit your article. Formulas for right circular cones have been fitted to the configurations of alluvial fans. Furthermore, there are a myriad of practical applications of quantitative. The term morphometry signifies the meaning of measurement of form derived from morpho form and metry measurement 2. Influence of structural and lithological controls of various drainage patterns and their stream orientations for 2nd, 3rd and 4th order steams were identified to evaluate the direction and controlling factors of drainage network. Morphometric analysis, geomorphology, aster dem, karawan watershed, and gis 1. Application of quantitative techniques in morphometric analysis of drainage basins was initially undertaken by horton et al. The watershed of the mhadei river is an integral part of the mandovi river basin fig. T 2015 morphometric analysis of the sumanpa river catchment at mampongashanti in ghana, arpn journal of earth. From morphometric measurements it is possible to obtain the mean dimensions of specific features and to obtain a quantitative range within which they exist. Biologists perform such an analysis all the time in order to understand and to model the demography of a population. Morphometry governs the dynamics of a drainage basin. Basin morphometry gives the signs of an influence on.
Morphometric analysis of threedimensional networks of. Morphometric analysis of drainage basins in the western. For this study, the shuttle radar topographic mission srtm digital elevation model dem is used for evaluation of morphometric components like. Geographical information system techniques have been used for the identification of geomorphological features and analyzing the properties of the banas river basin area in rajasthan state, india. Quantitative geomorphic methods developed within the past few years provide means of measuring size and form properties of drainage basins. Quantitative morphometric analysis facilitates understanding of the drainage development, surface runoff generation, infiltration capacity of the ground and groundwater potential.
Drainage basin morphometric analysis of galagu valley. The little book of geomorphology 6 1708 this is neither as farfetched, nor as irrelevant to our quest as geomorphologists, as it might sound. Morphometric analysis of banas river basin was carried out using remote sensing and gis techniques. It gathers various mathematical, statistical and image processing techniques that can be used to quantify morphological, hydrological, ecological and other aspects of a land surface. Spatial datasets for spring locations, elevation data, physiography, geology and hydrography were acquired for incorporation and analysis. Parallel work of basin morphometry has been carried out by abrahams, langbein, leopold, and maddock 68.
The study discloses different types of morphometric analysis and how they influence the soil and topography of. Deployed along the southeast florida palm beach, broward, and miamidade counties coast, an advanced alb system provided a. The gis based morphometric analysis of this drainage basin revealed that the charthana is 4 th order drainage basin and drainage pattern mainly in subdendritic to dendritic type thereby indicates homogeneity in texture and lack of structural control. These morphometric parameters can be used as descriptors of the underground geomorphology, they provide information on. The quantitative morphometric analysis carried out in neyyar subwatershed includes network analysis. The morphometric analysis can be broadly classified under three distinct classes of linear, areal and relief morphometry. Morphometric analysis, quantitative description and analysis of landforms as practiced in geomorphology that may be applied to a particular kind of landform or to drainage basins and large regions generally. The relationship between drainage morphometric parameters to its underlain geology, geomorphology and hydrological characteristics is. Geomorphologists are concerned primarily with earths surficial features, including their. Quantitative analysis of geomorphology and flow pattern analysis.
For example, to study the effects of fire, one might compare a vegetated watershed with a burned watershed. Morphometric analysis is refers as the quantitative evaluation of form characteristics of the earth surface and any landform unit. Two general classes of descriptive numbers are 1 linear scale measurements, whereby geometrically analogous units of topography can be compared as to size. Morphometric analysis of river basins using gis and. Morphometric parameters given by these researchers have longer been used to describe and predict the hydrological behavior of basin. View morphometric analysis research papers on academia. Pdf prioritization of subbasins based on geomorphology.
In addition, a combination of geomorphic units and morphometric analysis has been also found in the literature avinash et al. Spatial parameters prove valuable, however, in determining whether basins are sufficiently similar for direct comparison. Quantitative analysis and implications of drainage morphometry of. As geomorphology is concerned with the understanding of the shape of features, morphometry provides essential material on which to base a valid analysis. Dec 23, 2014 influence of structural and lithological controls of various drainage patterns and their stream orientations for 2nd, 3rd and 4th order steams were identified to evaluate the direction and controlling factors of drainage network. Geomorphology and general systems theory during the past decade several valuable attempts have been made, notably by strahler 1950,1952a, and 1952b, by culling 1957, p. Pdf geomorphology and morphometric analysis used as a. A morphometric analysis of the geomorphology of floridas springs andrew curtis walker abstract an exploratory study of the geomorphology of floridas springs was conducted using morphometric analysis. Pdf quantitative analysis of watershed geomorphology.
Pdf a morphometric analysis was done to evaluate the drainage characteristics of kousika manadi sub basin using topographical maps with. This involved the construction of longitudinal stream profiles and the calculation of the catchments morphometric parameters. A case study gyozo jordan1,2,3 1 joint research centre of the european commission, institute for environment and sustainability, tp 280, i21020, ispra va, italy 2 geological institute of hungary, hungarian geological survey, budapest, hungary. Morphometric analysis of threedimensional networks of karst. Pdf prioritization of subbasins based on geomorphology and. Geomorphology and morphometric analysis used as a significant indicator for groundwater prospects. Morphometric analysis of kadvi river basin, maharashtra using. Morphometric analysis of kadvi river basin, maharashtra. Morphometric analysis of katra watershed of eastern ghats. Morphometric analysis is a crucial step in understanding the. Therefore, geomorphology is literally the study of earth forms.
The morphometric analysis of the drainage basin and channel network plays a significant role in comprehension of the geohydrological nature of drainage basin and expresses the prevailing climate, geological setting, geomorphology and structural antecedents of the catchment area. Geomorphology and drainage characteristics of the gurpur river basin have been studied using satellite images, topographic maps and geographic information system gis techniques. Interpretation of seabed geomorphology based on spatial. Morphometric analysis of river subwatersheds using geographic information systems and principal component anlysis, north east of algeria. A morphometric analysis of the geomorphology of floridas. Other indexes describe the shape complexity of the karstic network. The present paper describes the drainage characteristics of galagu valley area in dinder district obtained through gis based morphometric analysis.
Morphometric analysis of a drainage basin using geographical. Quantitative morphometric analysis of drainage basins was begun in the middle of the 20th century, based on manual analyses of printed topographic maps 1721. Mar 25, 2019 morphometric characterisation is particularly relevant in the study of geomorphological heritage. The present assessment for morphometric analysis of the madurai drainage basin was undertaken to understand the hydrogeological behavior of the drainage basin and to know more about the prevailing climate, geology, geomorphology and structure in the cauvery sub water shed region of tamil nadu india. Gis is a convenient, accurate and reliable tool for analysis of the morphometric parameters sharma et al, 2010. Morphometric analysis of colanguil river basin and flash flood hazard, san. Introduction morphometry is the measurement and mathematical analysis of the configuration of the earths surface, shape and dimension of its landforms agarwal, 1998. It is felt that the study will be useful to understand hydrological behavior of basin. Geomorphometry, or geomorphometrics, is the science of quantitative land surface analysis. Analysis of basic and linear morphometric parameters using.
Figure 2 show an example of geometric morphometrics analysis. Morphometric analysis to infer hydrological behaviour of. This is the most common technique in basin analysis, as morphometry form an ideal areal unit for interpretation and analysis of fluvially originated landforms where they exhibits and example of open systems of operation. The progress in remote sensing technologies over the last 50 years has been central in the development of geomorphology wohl et al. Remote sensing and geographical information system gis techniques are increasingly being used for morphometric analysis of drainage basins throughout the world 9. The relief characteristics were used to generate the hypsometric curve which exhibit the monadnock and reliefs of coastal morphology. These parameters have been used in various studies of geomorphology and surfacewater hydrology, such as flood characteristics, sediment yield and evolution of basin morphology. Such studies focus on the forces that mold and alter the. Morphometric analysis and its relation to tectonics in macaronesia morphometric analysis and its relation to tectonics in macaronesia scheidegger, adrian e.
Morphometric analysis of watershed is the best method to identify the relationship of various aspects in the area. Morphometric analysis and hydrogeomorphology for delineating. Some of the morphometric parameters describe the existence of preferential directions of karstification. Morphometric analyses of neyyar river basin, southern kerala.
Geomorphology 2 the word geomorphology comes from the greek roots geo, morph, and logos, meaning earth, form, and study, respectively. Basin geomorphology and drainage morphometry parameters used. Laser bathymetric survey tools have applicability in clear coastal case ii waters down to. Geomorphometry is the science of quantitative landsurface analysis pike, 1995, 2000a. Morphometric analysis of river does not possible without soi toposheets or satellite imageries. The morphometric analysis is done with linear, aerial, relief aspect, the slope, and a gradient of a channel by many researchers 9,10. Morphometric analyses of neyyar river basin, southern. Geomorphology, scientific discipline concerned with the description and classification of the earths topographic features.
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