What are the drivers of Caspian Sea level variation during the late Quaternary?

Quaternary Caspian Sea level variations depended on geophysical processes (affecting the opening and closing of gateways and basin size/shape) and hydro-climatological processes (affecting water balance). Disentangling the drivers of past Caspian Sea level variation, as well as the mechanisms by which they impacted the Caspian Sea level...

Sedimentation Hazar Port

Hazar Port is located in Turkmenistan on Cheleken Peninsula, which is situated on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. Dragon Oil, an international oil and gas exploration company, is engaged in exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the Caspian Sea. Dragon Oil would like to use the harbour of Hazar as supply base for the expanding of...

Late Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level change and coastal paleoenvironment evolution along the Iranian Caspian shore

The level of the Caspian Sea is influenced by rivers mostly from the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere and therefore any change of its catchments including temperature and precipitation directly reflects on Caspian Sea-level. We reconstructed Late Pleistocene to Holocene Caspian Sea-level by a multi-disciplinary approach from a 27.7 m...

Shoreline Response to Rapid 20th Century Sea-Level Change along the Iranian Caspian Coast

The Caspian Sea, the largest lake in the world, is characterized by rapid sea-level changes. This provides a real physical model of coastal response to rapid sea-level change in a period of just a few years, which might take a millennium along oceanic coasts. Between 1929 and 1995, the Caspian sea level experienced the last cycle, with a range...

Holocene vegetation history and sea level changes in the SE corner of the Caspian Sea: Relevance to SW Asia climate

The palynological investigation of core TM (27.7 m long) taken in a dried out lagoon reveals both Holocene vegetation history in the north-eastern foothills of the Alborz Mountains and past water level changes of the Caspian Sea (CS). The delay in woodland expansion at the beginning of the Holocene, which is typical of eastern Turkey, the...

Application of multi attribute decision making methods to resources allocation problems

Operation of over shared resources (water, gas, oil, and mineral reserves) has been one the most significant challenges of states. “Fair” and “efficient” national resources reallocation among stakeholders and states is a complex conflict problem that faces this fundamental question: which criteria and mechanisms should be taken into account for...

Rapid Caspian Sea-level change and its impact on Iranian coasts

The Late Pleistocene and Holocene evolution as well as recent developments of the southern coast of the Caspian Sea have been studied using remote sensing and core data. This thesis focuses firstly on recent shoreline shifts during the last rapid sea-level cycle between 1929 and 1995, with an amplitude of three meters. Secondly, it shows a...

The Late Pleistocene and Holocene Evolution of The North Caspian Plain

The rapid rates of sea level change in the Caspian Sea since its formation (Proterozoic) have resulted in unique sedimentary sequences, including many oil and gas reservoirs. An important hydrocarbon province is the fine grained-sandstone of the Productive Series in the South Caspian Basin that consist for at least some part of sheetflood...

Tehran has a Coast: 35N51E2050

Tehran as a New Town can be described as those human settlements that were founded at a certain moment in history by an explicit act of will, according to a preceding plan and aiming to survive as a self-sustaining local community and independent local government. It indicates the role of the City as, New Town, as an iconoclastic form of...

The impact of changes in sediment supply and sea-level on fluvio-deltaic stratigraphy

Studies in stratigraphy are often driven by the predicted climate change and possible gains for the oil and gas industry. Because, at present predictions of the development of future deltaic architecture are insufficient. This thesis addresses the problem of qualitative and quantitative understanding of sedimentary systems in two stages. In the...

Water level statistics in Delta Areas

Overview of a mathematical model for the Lower Volga Delta in Sobek both in 1D as well as in 2D. In inflow of the Wolga in the Caspian Sea has been studied. The connected database contains discharge information of the Volga river. The failure probabilities of flood defences in Delta areas or transition zones arefrom the view points of loads,...

Map of mud-volcanos in the Caspian Sea (Southern Bath)

Map (1:1000000) of mud vulcanos plus explanation, including a profile and some subsurface graphs.