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• IUAP PROJECT - THE LAND OF SUMER AND AKKAD
Reconstructing History and Environnement of the Mesopotamian Plain.
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PICTURES
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• Jarrahi river just before it enters the flat plain
• Mudcracks and salt pans on the sabkha
• The pedological auger with sediments from a freshwater marsh
• The mud flat at low tide
• The mud flat of the Khawr Musa tidal area at low tide
• Recently dug canal in the salt marsh with halophyte vegetation
• The transition from mud flat to salt marsh
• Village in a freshwater marsh
• Flooding of a freshwater marsh in the rainy season
• The freshwater marsh with extreme flooding
• The gauge auger with intertidal mud at borehole 54
• Gypsum cristals
• Oil wells in the surroundings of Ahwaz
• Tells (archaeological sites)
• Ahwaz city crossed by the Karun river
• The Karun river during the rainy
season in Ahwaz
• Mudcracks and salt pans on the sabkha
• The pedological auger with sediments from a freshwater marsh
• The mud flat at low tide
• The mud flat of the Khawr Musa tidal area at low tide
• Recently dug canal in the salt marsh with halophyte vegetation
• The transition from mud flat to salt marsh
• Village in a freshwater marsh
• Flooding of a freshwater marsh in the rainy season
• The freshwater marsh with extreme flooding
• The gauge auger with intertidal mud at borehole 54
• Gypsum cristals
• Oil wells in the surroundings of Ahwaz
• Tells (archaeological sites)
• Ahwaz city crossed by the Karun river
• The Karun river during the rainy
season in Ahwaz
• The anticline of Ahwaz
• View of the immense vast and flat plain
• Ancient canal
• Sediments showing the typical thin interlayering of intertidal flat deposits
• Mud cracks on the surface of the plain and remnants of the Iran-Iraq war of the 80's
• The gauge auger with subtidal mud interlayered with fine sand at the depth of 6 meters
• Typical view of the vast and flat plain with sparse vegetation
• Outcrop in a brickyard showing freshwater deposits at the base overlain by fluvial
• The opening up of new agricultural land with irrigation
• Archaeological prospection of a tell
• Dissolution of the rock in the anticline of Ahwaz
• Pleistocene deposits covering the anticline of Ahwaz
• The transition of a salt marsh to freshwater deposits in borehole 28
• View of the immense vast and flat plain
• Ancient canal
• Sediments showing the typical thin interlayering of intertidal flat deposits
• Mud cracks on the surface of the plain and remnants of the Iran-Iraq war of the 80's
• The gauge auger with subtidal mud interlayered with fine sand at the depth of 6 meters
• Typical view of the vast and flat plain with sparse vegetation
• Outcrop in a brickyard showing freshwater deposits at the base overlain by fluvial
• The opening up of new agricultural land with irrigation
• Archaeological prospection of a tell
• Dissolution of the rock in the anticline of Ahwaz
• Pleistocene deposits covering the anticline of Ahwaz
• The transition of a salt marsh to freshwater deposits in borehole 28
The Jarrahi river just before it enters the flat plain
Mud cracks and salt pans on the sabkha
The pedological auger with sediments from a freshwater marsh
The mud flat at low tide
The mud flat of the Khawr Musa tidal area at low tide
Recently dug canal in the salt marsh with halophyte vegetation
The transition from mud flat to salt marsh
Village in a freshwater marsh
Flooding of a freshwater marsh in the rainy season
The freshwater marsh with extreme flooding
The gauge auger with intertidal mud at borehole 54
Gypsum cristals
Oil wells in the surroundings of Ahwaz
Tells (archaeological sites)
Ahwaz city crossed by the Karun river
The Karun river during the rainy season in Ahwaz
The anticline of Ahwaz
View of the immense vast and flat plain
Ancient canal
Sediments showing the typical thin interlayering of intertidal flat deposits
Mud cracks on the surface of the plain and remnants of the Iran-Iraq war of the 80's
The gauge auger with subtidal mud interlayered with fine sand at a depth of 6 meters
Typical view of the vast and flat plain with sparse vegetation
Outcrop in a brickyard showing freshwater deposits at the base overlain by fluvial clay
The opening up of new agricultural land with irrigation
Archaeological prospection of a tell
Dissolution of the rock in the anticline of Ahwaz
Pleistocene deposits covering the anticline of Ahwaz
The transition of salt marsh to freshwater deposits in borehole 28