{"title":"Application of morphotectonic indices for assessing active tectonics: A case study of Acheron river basin","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105240","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rivers tend to alter the morphology of their bed and valley as a response to changes in their base level. The study of a drainage basin's tectonic activeness is very important. But especially in areas where rates of vertical tectonic movements are scarce, the morphometric analysis can be proved to be a very accurate method for assessing the effects of neotectonic movements on a drainage network. This method is easy to apply, as it does not require a lot of data. This study concerns the drainage basin of Acheron river in Epirus, Greece. In order to assess of river's response to active tectonic movements, a morphometric analysis was conducted, using a digital elevation model (DEM). Seven morphometric parametres and five geomorphic indices were calculated for the entire basin, as well as 9 sub-basins. Subsequently, each sub-basin was categorised into three categories regarding tectonic activeness (high-medium-low) for each index individually. The relative active tectonics index was also calculated, as the average of the aforementioned morphometric parametres and geomorphic indices. Based on that, each sub-basin was categorised into three categories regarding the overall tectonic activeness (low-medium-high). These results were compared with the drainage pattern and field observations, so as to gain insights on the tectonic activeness of the sub-basins and the entire basin of Acheron.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Structural Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Structural Geology","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814124001925","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Rivers tend to alter the morphology of their bed and valley as a response to changes in their base level. The study of a drainage basin's tectonic activeness is very important. But especially in areas where rates of vertical tectonic movements are scarce, the morphometric analysis can be proved to be a very accurate method for assessing the effects of neotectonic movements on a drainage network. This method is easy to apply, as it does not require a lot of data. This study concerns the drainage basin of Acheron river in Epirus, Greece. In order to assess of river's response to active tectonic movements, a morphometric analysis was conducted, using a digital elevation model (DEM). Seven morphometric parametres and five geomorphic indices were calculated for the entire basin, as well as 9 sub-basins. Subsequently, each sub-basin was categorised into three categories regarding tectonic activeness (high-medium-low) for each index individually. The relative active tectonics index was also calculated, as the average of the aforementioned morphometric parametres and geomorphic indices. Based on that, each sub-basin was categorised into three categories regarding the overall tectonic activeness (low-medium-high). These results were compared with the drainage pattern and field observations, so as to gain insights on the tectonic activeness of the sub-basins and the entire basin of Acheron.
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The Journal of Structural Geology publishes process-oriented investigations about structural geology using appropriate combinations of analog and digital field data, seismic reflection data, satellite-derived data, geometric analysis, kinematic analysis, laboratory experiments, computer visualizations, and analogue or numerical modelling on all scales. Contributions are encouraged to draw perspectives from rheology, rock mechanics, geophysics,metamorphism, sedimentology, petroleum geology, economic geology, geodynamics, planetary geology, tectonics and neotectonics to provide a more powerful understanding of deformation processes and systems. Given the visual nature of the discipline, supplementary materials that portray the data and analysis in 3-D or quasi 3-D manners, including the use of videos, and/or graphical abstracts can significantly strengthen the impact of contributions.