Investigating the relationship between the activity of faults on the occurrence of travertine deposits in the southwest of Yazd province using RS & GIS techniques.
Subject Areas : Journal of Radar and Optical Remote Sensing and GIS
1 - Department of Civil Engineering, Abarkouh Branch, Islamic Azad University,Abarkouh , Iran
Keywords: RS, GIS, fault, building stone mines, travertine, geothermal resources,
Abstract :
The western and southwestern part of Yazd province, which has a good mineral potential due to its special geological location and proximity to the Dehshir-Baft major fault and other micro-faults in the region, can be mentioned as a result of the activity of this fault, such as marble travertine quarries. Among the rapid and emerging methods for exploration the aforementioned building stone quarries is the use of GIS and RS techniques. In this study, the two aforementioned techniques were used to determine promising areas for exploring building stone quarries. Remote sensing studies were carried out in the ILWISE software environment. After analyzing the Landsat satellite images of the desired area, a false color image 347 was used for further studies. In the Arcview environment, information layers were created including the location of travertine masses and the distribution of faults in the region to explore building stone quarries. The false color image showed a close and tight relationship between the faults in the area and the distribution of travertine masses. Therefore, this model can be used to limit the exploration and exploration of travertine masses to areas where faults are concentrated. In the northwestern part of the Dehshir fault, numerous travertine masses were identified after studies on the 1:100,000 Dehshir map and the relevant satellite image, which have mining potential.
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