TITLE:
Active Tectonics of Kangavar Area, West Iran
AUTHORS:
Niloofar Gholamhosein Fard, Ali Sorbi, Mehran Arian
KEYWORDS:
Active Tectonics, Geomorohic Index, Kangavar, Zagros, Iran
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.5 No.6,
June
25,
2015
ABSTRACT: Kangavar area is located in the
Sanandaj-Sirjan belt in the west Iran. Geomorphic indices of active tectonics
are useful tools to analyze the influence of active tectonics. These indices
have the advantage of being calculated from Arc GIS and remote sensing packages
over large area as a reconnaissance tool to identify geomorphic anomalies
possibly related to active tectonics. This is particularly valuable that
relatively little work on active tectonics based on this method is done, so
this method is new and useful. Six geomorphic indices are calculated in the
study area. Then, based on index of active tectonics values that calculated by
average of six geomorphic indices, two relative tectonic activities levels are
revealed. The low class of Iat is mainly in the sub-basins of 3, 4, 15, 16, 17,
19 & 22 while the rest of the study area has moderate active tectonics in
the other sub-basins. Our results show that the moderate value is located on
faulted area, which shows 3 class of relative tectonic activity.