Geomorphology of Dakhla Depression
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4 Conclusion and Recommendations
The geomorphological study of Dakhla Depression gives some important remarks:
1. The importance of analyzing the landscape and landforms from a more wider
view bridging the gap among the other geographic regions surrounded the area
and located the correct place of Dakhla Depression in the wider image of Eastern
Sahara.
2. The importance of multidisciplinary approaches to study Dakhla Depression
from different specializations of earth sciences.
3. The study area undergoes different man-made hazards destroying its natural
heritage in the land, water, and natural vegetation. There are many examples of
problems of.
4. Over-irrigation and mismanagement of spring/well water resources. Most of
land reclamation in the study area are going fast at the expense of playa, spring
mounds, springs …etc. the last ten years were very dramatic in removing most
of the quaternary natural history of the oasis.
5. Archaeological sites are suffering all kind of deteriorations, either by natural
hazards or man-made ones (see Fig. 31).
6. Sand dunes in the study area are a very important issue to be monitoring in
the future. There are new successful attempts to confront desertification in
different parts of the depression (especially through cultivation) but dune fields
still threatening the oasis very seriously.
7. Discharging drained water after cultivation is a big problem in many areas inside
the depression. The triangle of Isment–Hindaw–Mut is a visible example for land
salinization (see Fig. 32).
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4 Conclusion and Recommendations
The geomorphological study of Dakhla Depression gives some important remarks:
1. The importance of analyzing the landscape and landforms from a more wider
view bridging the gap among the other geographic regions surrounded the area
and located the correct place of Dakhla Depression in the wider image of Eastern
Sahara.
2. The importance of multidisciplinary approaches to study Dakhla Depression
from different specializations of earth sciences.
3. The study area undergoes different man-made hazards destroying its natural
heritage in the land, water, and natural vegetation. There are many examples of
problems of.
4. Over-irrigation and mismanagement of spring/well water resources. Most of
land reclamation in the study area are going fast at the expense of playa, spring
mounds, springs …etc. the last ten years were very dramatic in removing most
of the quaternary natural history of the oasis.
5. Archaeological sites are suffering all kind of deteriorations, either by natural
hazards or man-made ones (see Fig. 31).
6. Sand dunes in the study area are a very important issue to be monitoring in
the future. There are new successful attempts to confront desertification in
different parts of the depression (especially through cultivation) but dune fields
still threatening the oasis very seriously.
7. Discharging drained water after cultivation is a big problem in many areas inside
the depression. The triangle of Isment–Hindaw–Mut is a visible example for land
salinization (see Fig. 32).