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Research article |
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| 30 Aug 2019
Sinkholes and uvalas in evaporite karst: spatio-temporal development with links to base-level fall on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea
Robert A. Watson
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
UCD School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin,
Ireland
now at: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Graz, 8010
Graz, Austria
UCD School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin,
Ireland
Djamil Al-Halbouni
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.1, Potsdam, Germany
Leila Saberi
University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis,
USA
Ali Sawarieh
Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Amman, Jordan
Damien Closson
Geographic Information Management, Leuven, Belgium
Hussam Alrshdan
Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Amman, Jordan
Najib Abou Karaki
Department of Environmental and Applied Geology, University of
Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan
visiting scientist at: Environmental Engineering Department,
Al-Hussein bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan
Christian Siebert
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, T. Lieser Str. 4, 06120 Halle, Germany
Thomas R. Walter
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.1, Potsdam, Germany
Torsten Dahm
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.1, Potsdam, Germany
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Using state-of-the-art geomorphic techniques, we quantified a 2-order of magnitude discrepancy between annual, decadal, and millennial sediment fluxes of a landslide-affected mountainous river catchment in the Swiss Alps. Our results illustrate that the impact of a single sediment pulse is strongly attenuated at larger spatial and temporal scales by sediment transport. The accumulation of multiple sediment pulses has rather a measurable impact on the regional pattern of sediment fluxes.
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Solid Earth, 10, 1219–1241, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1219-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1219-2019, 2019
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A 2-D numerical modelling approach to simulate the mechanical formation of sinkhole cluster inside large-scale karstic depressions is presented. Different multiple cavity growth scenarios at depth are compared regarding the mechanical process and collapse style. The outcomes of the models are compared to results from remote sensing and geophysics for an active sinkhole area in the Dead Sea region.
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The fall of the Dead Sea level since the 1960s has provoked the formation of over 6000 sinkholes, a major hazard to local economy and infrastructure. In this context, we study the evolution of subsidence phenomena at three area scales at the Dead Sea’s eastern shore from 1967–2017. Our results yield the most detailed insights to date into the spatio-temporal development of sinkholes and larger depressions (uvalas) in an evaporite karst setting and emphasize a link to the falling Dead Sea level.
The fall of the Dead Sea level since the 1960s has provoked the formation of over 6000...
