Abstract
We present a geomorphological map of the Cilo Mountain range located in southeast Turkey that illustrates the recent evolution of the second-most glacierized area of Turkey. The map was produced by the manual delineating of landforms from highresolution satellite imagery (Pleiades and Google EarthTM images). Cilo Mountain glaciation played a crucial role in the evolution of the local physical landscape and even today glaciers are significant features. After the termination of Little Ice Age, deglaciation promoted the onset of multiple and intense surface processes; widespread slope instabilities, due to permafrost melting and frost weathering processes, are still the most active processes. Such processes are further promoted by the scarcity of vegetation. The occurrence of several proglacial lakes significantly contributes to the reduction of sediment output from glaciated watersheds, influencing the evolution of proglacial plains and resulting in a variety of landforms that we identified and described in this work.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 258-267 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Maps |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Journal of Maps.
Funding
The Pleiades data were provided by the European Space Agency (ESA, project: Geomorphological mapping and recent glacier evolution of the Mount Ararat volcanic complex through SPOT and PLEIADES images; ID-32011, project leader RSA). Part of this research was supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) through the project “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018–2022” (WP4–Risorse del Patrimonio Culturale) awarded to the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio” of the Università degli Studi di Milano. We acknowledge the support for publication fees from the University of Milan through the APC initiative and from grant CTE_NAZPR21AZERB_01 (to AZ). The Pleiades data were provided by the European Space Agency (ESA, project: Geomorphological mapping and recent glacier evolution of the Mount Ararat volcanic complex through SPOT and PLEIADES images; ID-32011, project leader RSA). Part of this research was supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) through the project “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018–2022” (WP4 – Risorse del Patrimonio Culturale) awarded to the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio” of the Università degli Studi di Milano. We acknowledge the support for publication fees from the University of Milan through the APC initiative and from grant CTE_NAZPR21AZERB_01 (to AZ).
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Università degli Studi di Milano | CTE_NAZPR21AZERB_01 |
| European Space Agency | ID-32011 |
| Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca |
Keywords
- Geomorphological mapping
- Mount Cilo
- Pleiades data
- glacial landforms
- proglacial landforms