Fluvial Transport Model from Spatial Distribution Analysis of Libyan Desert Glass Mass on the Great Sand Sea (Southwest Egypt): Clues to Primary Glass Distribution
Autor: | Gustavo Rodríguez-Gómez, Nancy Jimenez-Martinez, Marius Ramirez, Raquel Díaz-Hernández |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
geography
education.field_of_study geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Bedrock Population lcsh:QE1-996.5 Fluvial Distribution (economics) Libyan desert glass LDG strewn field Spatial distribution Libyan Desert Glass Strewn field Deposition (geology) lcsh:Geology kriging interpolation paleodrainage system General Earth and Planetary Sciences business education Geomorphology Geology |
Zdroj: | Geosciences, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 95-116 (2015) Geosciences Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 95-116 |
ISSN: | 2076-3263 |
Popis: | Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is a natural silica-rich melted rock found as pieces scattered over the sand and bedrock of the Western Desert of Egypt, northeast of the Gilf Kebir. In this work, a population mixture analysis serves to relate the present spatial distribution of LDG mass density with the Late Oligocene–Early Miocene fluvial dynamics in the Western Desert of Egypt. This was verified from a spatial distribution model that was predicted from the log-normal kriging method using the LDG–mass-dependent transformed variable, Y(x). Both low- and high-density normal populations (–9.2 < Y(x) < –3.5 and –3.8 < 2.1, respectively) were identified. The low-density population was the result of an ordinary fluvial LDG transport/deposition sequence that was active from the time of the melting process, and which lasted until the end of activity of the Gilf River. The surface distribution of the high-density population allowed us to restrict the source area of the melting process. We demonstrate the importance of this geostatistical study in unveiling the probable location of the point where the melting of surficial material occurred and the role of the Gilf River in the configuration of the observed strewn field. |
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