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Geomorphometric Characteristics of Major Badland Landscapes of
Turkey
Aydogan Avcioglu𝟏,Tolga Görüm1, Omer Yetemen1& Mariano Moreno de las Heras2𝟏Eurasia Institute of Earth Science, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
𝟐Institute of Environmental Assessment & Water Research, National Research Council
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Study area and Aim of this study
In this study, we present results from a quantitative analysis of a newinventory of badland areas (~756 km2) at six major badland landscapes inTurkey. Previously partly known but not documented badlandgeomorphological units were expanded by mapping badland forms fromaerial photos and high-resolution multispectral image interpretationsfocused on the Western and Central Anatolia.
Our aim is to compare six major badland areas in the different arid andsemi-arid sections of Anatolia to characterize their distribution using localmorphometric variables like Slope Gradient, Lenght Slope and Steepness(LS), Elevation Texture, Plan-Profile-Tangential Curvatures, TerrainRuggedness Index (TRI).
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Figure 1: The distribution of major badland areas in Turkey.
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DFigure 2: Flow-chart of the metholody
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Figure 3: Multiple comparision of test areas in terms of applied geomorphometric analyzes
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Figure 4: The display of standart deviation values of Slope and LS variables in badlands areas from non-badlands areas (i.e. Burdur)
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Badlands tanımı Nallıhan Foto ile
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Figure 5: The display of standart deviation values of Texture and TRI variables in badlands areas from non-badlands areas (i.e. Burdur)
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Conclusion
From our visual interpretation and descriptive statistical results of sixmajor badlands areas we concluded that:
1) Topographic curvatures do not reflect significant statisticaldifferences in badland and non-badland areas.
2) However, slope gradient and related morphometric derivatives (i.e.,LS, Texture, TRI) bear clear signatures of badland and non-badlandareas.